enaunter
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Middle English enaunter, from in, en (“in”) aunter (“adventure”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Conjunction[edit]
enaunter
- (obsolete) Lest.
- 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Aegloga Se[c]unda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; republished as The Shepheardes Calender […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, →OCLC:
- Anger would not let him speak to the tree, Enaunter his rage might cooled be, But to the root bent his sturdy stroke
- 1589, Mar Martine, 5, quoted in 1809, Egerton Brydges, Censura Literaria, page 60:
- For men of litrature t'endite so fast, them doth not sitte, / Enaunter in them, as in thee, thair pen outrun thair witt; […]
- (Can we date this quote?) published in 1946, The Characters of Theophrastus: Newly Edited and Translated by J.M. Edmonds:
- KORITTO: […] For day and night long doth she weare our stone into scrapings, enaunter she pay a grote to set her own.
References[edit]
- “enaunter”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.