Crossword-Solution: POIGNANCY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Poignancy | n. | The quality or state of being poignant; as, the poignancy of satire; the poignancy of grief. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “POIGNANCY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Touching quality | 2 answers |
| Pathos | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with POIGNANCY (5)
Child as she was, she felt the poignancy of her friend’s grief, and with the infinite tact of her girlish tenderness, she did not try to pry into it, but was ready to efface herself.
Lapham had named herself? After dark, that evening, when the question had worn away its poignancy from mere iteration, a note for Mrs.
The recognition did not lessen the reality, the poignancy of the revelation by any suggestion or promise of instability.
Then, little by little, she began to relive, with a dreadful poignancy, each separate stage of her poor romance.
The absurdity that clung to everything connected with Dirk Stroeve gave it a curious note, like an unresolved discord, but made it somehow more modern, more human; like a rough joke thrown into a serious scene, it heightened the poignancy which all beauty has.
Quotes with POIGNANCY (3)
You mean that because I have no name I cannot die and that you cannot be held answerable for death even if you kill me?""That is about the size of it," said the Sergeant. I felt so sad and so entirely disappointed that tears came into my eyes and a lump of incommunicable poignancy swelled tragically in my throat. I began to feel intensely every fragment of my equal humanity. The life that was bubbling at the end of my fingers was real and nearly painful in intensity and so wa…
A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As a tattoo is grounded on living skin, so its essence emotes a poignancy unique to the mortal human condition.
There is nothing like wounded affection for giving poignancy to anger.
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Appears in: WP.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2000).