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Definition of Poynant
1. poignant [adj] - See also: poignant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Poynant
Literary usage of Poynant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Four Visitations of Bershire Made and Taken by Thomas Benolte, Clarnceuc by Thomas Benolt, William Harvey, Henry Chitting, John Philipot, William Camden, Elias Ashmole, Sir Edward Bysshe, College of Arms (Great Britain) (1908)
"... Grant of Arms to Mighell poynant of London, 1508. MS. Ashm. 840, pp. 377,
378 (see Allen of Streatley, Vol. I., p. 156). ..."
2. The Corpus Ms (Corpus Christi Coll., Oxford) of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1879)
"... and heuy and ful Bernardu> scharp and poynant 1 in herto [131] H ffirst 1 ...
1 his fader celestial [132] H And jet 1 more scharp and poynant H ffor ho ..."
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