Crossword-Solution: PAYNIM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Paynim | n. & a. | See Painim. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “PAYNIM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Heathen, old style. | 1 answer |
| Old word for a heathen. | 1 answer |
| Heathen, once | 2 answers |
| Moslem | 8 answers |
| Pagan | 11 answers |
| Heathen | 38 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PAYNIM (5)
Such forces met not, nor so wide a camp, When Agrican, with all his northern powers, Besieged Albracea, as romances tell, The city of Gallaphrone, from thence to win 340 The fairest of her sex, Angelica, His daughter, sought by many prowest knights, Both Paynim and the peers of Charlemane.
But he wouldn’t hear no more about it—just said if we had tackled the thing in the proper spirit, he would ’a’ raised a couple of thousand knights and put them in steel armor from head to heel, and made me a lieutenant and Jim a sutler, and took the command himself and brushed the whole paynim outfit into the sea like flies and come back across the world in a glory like sunset.
XLVII Long time Tancredi had in vain attended When this huge storm should overblow and pass, Some blows his mighty target well defended, Some fell beside, and wounded deep the grass; But when he saw the tempest never ended, Nor that the Paynim’s force aught weaker was, He high advanced his cutting sword at length, And rage to rage opposed, and strength to strength.
XLIV Toward the bridge the fearful Paynim fled, And in swift flight, his hope of life reposed; Himself fast after Lord Tancredi sped, And now in equal pace almost they closed, When all the burning lamps extinguished The shining fort his goodly splendor losed, And all those stars on heaven’s blue face that shone With Cynthia’s self, dispeared were and gone.
LXXIII Lord Guelpho struck again, but hit her not, For strong Osmida haply passed by, And not meant him, another’s wound he got, That cleft his front in twain above his eye: Near Guelpho now the battle waxed hot, For all the troops he led gan thither hie, And thither drew eke many a Paynim knight, That fierce, stern, bloody, deadly waxed the fight.
Quotes with PAYNIM (1)
(...) Sir Boris had fought and killed the Paynim; Sir Gawain, the Turk; Sir Miles, the Pole; Sir Andrew, the Frank; Sir Richard, the Austrian; Sir Jordan, the Frenchman; and Sir Herbert, the Spaniard. But of all that killing and campaigning, that drinking and love-making, that spending and hunting and riding and eating, what remained? A skull; a finger. Whereas, he said, turning to the page of Sir Thomas Browne, which lay open upon the table — and again he paused. Like an inc…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1955–1995).