poignance
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpɔɪnjəns/
Noun
poignance (countable and uncountable, plural poignances)
- Poignancy; the quality or state of being poignant. [from 17th c.]
- 1983, Lawrence Durrell, Sebastian (Avignon Quintet), Faber & Faber, published 2004, page 1016:
- The objects themselves might have come from some Stone Age grave so remote did they seem: yet they had poignance.
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