paravant
English
Alternative forms
- paravaunt
Etymology
From Middle French paravant, from par + avant.
Adverb
paravant (not comparable)
- (obsolete, rare) Pre-eminently; first. [16th-17th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.10:
- But that faire one, / That in the midst was placed paravaunt, / Was she to whom that shepheard pypt alone […]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.10: