avaunce

From Old French avancer (“to move forward”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /əˈvɔːns/, /əˈvɑːns/
• Rhymes: -ɔːns, -ɑːns

avaunce (third-person singular simple present avaunces, present participle avauncing, simple past and past participle avaunced)

1. (obsolete) To advance; to profit. [from early 13th c.]
   • 1570, Margaret Ascham, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, foreword:

     And so besechyng you, to take on you the defense of this booke, to auaunce the good that may come of it by your allowance and furtherance to publike vse and benefite...

• “avaunce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1914), “avaunce”, in The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language, revised edition, volumes I (A–C), New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.