Poignancy
['pɔɪɡnənsi]
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being poignant; as, the poignancy of satire; the poignancy of grief.
Typed by Elinor
Examples
- It gains in poignancy, but loses reality. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The sharpness must be gone--the point, the poignancy--the deep imprint must be softened away and effaced? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Gravely spoken sentences, marked by unexpected turns and a quite fresh flavour and poignancy, fell easily from his lips. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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