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▪ I. † penant Obs.
Also aunt(e.
[ME. a. OF. penant, earlier peneant, -aant:—L. pænitēnt-em, penitent (by which penant was superseded a 1500).]
A penitent; one doing penance; in last quot., one suffering in purgatory.
a1300St. Gregory 944 in Herrig Archiv LVII. 69 Penaunt he semeþ wel of siȝt. 13..Cursor M. 26857 (Cott.) For fals penantes men sal þam tak. c140026 Polit. Poems (E.E.T.S.) xxv. 476 Thys maketh me to drowpe and dare That I am lyke a pore penaunte. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. xxix. (1869) 20 Vnshette þe doore, and make your penauntes [Fr. penans] entre in.
▪ II. penant
variant of pennant2, kind of stone. |