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poignance en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈpɔɪnjəns/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree English poignant Latin -ns Latin -āns Latin -ia Latin -āntia Old French -ancebor. Middle English -aunce English -ance English poignance From poignant + -ance.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Poignancy; the quality or state of being poignant.
   • The objects themselves might have come from some Stone Age grave so remote did they seem: yet they had poignance. 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1016:
   • Too bad Locke's idea didn't catch on; the thought of measuring things in philosophical feet has an unquestionable poignance. 1988 August 19, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:

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