ovant

From Latin ovans (“triumphant”), present participle of ovare (“to exult”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈəʊvənt/

ovant (comparative more ovant, superlative most ovant)

1. (obsolete) exultant
   • 1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “[Book IV]”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], OCLC 12997447:

     A Generall was said to enter Ovant into the citie, when ordinarily without his armie following him, he went on foot, or rode on horsebacke only, and the people in their Acclamations for joy, redoubled Ohe, or Oho.

• ovation

• ovant in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

ovant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of ovō

ovant

1. absolute indefinite neuter singular of ovan.