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poignance rare.|ˈpɔɪnəns, ˈpɔɪɲəns|
[f. poignant: see -ance.]
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1769O. Ruffhead Life A. Pope 114 The solemn air..greatly heightens the poignance of the ridicule. Ibid. 119 The poet's closing the climax with the highest disaster of all, gives additional poignance to the ridicule. 1782J. Elphinston tr. Martial iii. ii. 132 To lend the pepper poignance. 1812E. Wynne Let. 6 Apr. in Wynne Diaries (1952) xxx. 514 All the poignance of his sufferings. 1893A. L. Haddon What ails the House? I. 129 Everything that surrounded me..lent poignance to my uneasiness. |