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Avaunce

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A`vaunce´    (å`vạns´)
v. t. & i.1.To advance; to profit.
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He appropriates language as he appropriates his female relations, rendering both debased currencies for exchange: Thy nece, thy cosyn, thy sister or thy doghter, If she be faire, if handsom be her myddell, Yf thy better hath her love besoght her, Avaunce his cause and he shall help thy nede.
'These proverbes yet do last': Lydgate, the fifth earl of ... by Gillespie, Alexandra / Yearbook of English Studies
I see pat nchesse yefeth (='gives') no suffisaunce, Ne hyhe estate ne worldly reuerence, And pogh pat worldly fame a man avaunce, Of gentilesse it 3euep (='gives') none evidence.
In search of happiness: felicitas and beatitudo in Early English ... by Rissanen, Matti / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
 
 
 
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