poignance

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poignance

  • /ˈpɔɪnjəns/ UK

noun poignances

  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.

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@misc{poignance_2026,
  title = {poignance},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/poignance},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}