aroint, aroynt

a word presentation by:

Ashley Ann Eubanks
 Meanings
• Avaunt! Begone!
• drive away with an execration
 Used By Shakespeare
• 1605 in Macbeth, Act I, scene iii, line 6:
– Aroynt thee, Witch, the rumpefed Ronyon
cryes.
• 1605 in Lear, Act III, scene iv, line 129
– He met the Night-Mare..Bid her a-light, and
her troth-plight, And, aroynt thee, Witch,
aroynt thee.
 Used By Others
• Alexander Scott
– 1816, Antiquity: Aroint thee, witch! wouldst thou poison my
guests with thy infernal decoctions
– 1823, Quentin D: Act II, scene xix, line 364
• P. Heidiger
– 1831, Didoniad: Aroynt, thou lingering, long-drawn mortal
Strife.
• Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
– 1850, To Flush xviii: Whiskered cats arointed flee.
• Robert Browning
– 1878, Poets Croisic: That Humbug, whom thy soul aroints.
– 1880, Dram. Idylls, Pietro: Aroint the churl who prophesies.
 Similar Words
• a’runt
• ryntye
• rynt
• ryndta