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(pumaunce) (s.xiii)

(pumaunce) (s.xiii)

 
  FEW: Gdf: GdfC: TL: DEAF:  pumaunce  DMF: TLF: OED: MED: DMLBS:

The word seems to be a hapax without any clear etymon. One possible interpretation is to read the three minims of ‘m’ as ‘ui’, and the word as puinance. In that case *poignance would be an otherwise unattested nominal derivative of poindre1 which has the sense ‘(fig.) to sting, prick, cause pain or anguish’. Alternatively, puinance may be a deviant spelling of penance.

s.

theol.compunction, remorse
( MS: s.xiii )  compu[n]ctio: pumaunce (l. puinance?)  Gloss Garland 172

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