Poignancy is valid Scrabble Word

Is poignancy a scrabble word?
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9 letters word
17 points in Scrabble
21 points in WWF

Definitions for POIGNANCY in dictionary:

NOUN:

the state of being poignant, also POIGNANCE
the quality of evoking a keen sense of sadness or regret; pathos
The quality or state of being poignant; as, the poignancy of satire; the poignancy of grief.
a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow
a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow)

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

the quality or state of being poignant

Words related to POIGNANCY

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How to use POIGNANCY in a sentence

Remember to tear thy robe some little in the poignancy of thy woe, and to lose a sandal.
They were happy in their work, happy in the thought of rendering service, so happy that the poignancy of individual loss was carried more easily.
At last encroaching drowsiness dulled the poignancy of her feelings and she sank to sleep.
The censure of a bad appointment, on account of the uncertainty of its author, and for want of a determinate object, has neither poignancy nor duration.
Because that dingy little wooden building with its outside stair to his attic, was the nucleus of memories that had by no means lost their poignancy.
All her utterances, where there is any feeling in them, no matter what, have a poignancy, a vibration which is Brontesque and nothing more.
I still reproach myself from time to time, and seriously reflect, but the feeling has lost its poignancy.
But the fall of Robespierre and his accomplices was accompanied by every circumstance that could add poignancy to suffering, or dread to death.
She had never craved physical nearness to him, so that she ached with the poignancy of that craving.
Somehow they soothed him, lessening the poignancy of his anguish, checking his wild rebellion, making him aware of a strangely comforting peace.

Their chief aim, however, is to produce the utmost realism of effect, to translate the poignancy of passion, the dread certainty of doom, into forms of unmistakable fidelity.
The condemnation of the poignancy of Aristophanes, as having too much acrimony, is better founded.
Not with the yearning he had felt toward the old brick house, but with the poignancy of a long past happiness.
For he saw that it was the inevitable slipping-away of all life which gave poignancy to loveliness.
The recognition did not lessen the reality, the poignancy of the revelation by any suggestion or promise of instability.
There was indeed a subtle passion and poignancy about the pictures that it seemed to Enoch as well as to the President, only a fine mind could have found and captured.
In short, every thing concurred to make us dear to each other, and therefore to give a greater poignancy to the pain of parting a second time.
To be sure the poignancy of harmony in our day has been heightened to an incredible degree.
Deware, with her two daughters, had gone on a trip to England to dull the poignancy of their bereavement.
Certainly Trenchard and I could feel with less poignancy the appeal of her presence, and yet I swear that to us also on that day it was she of whom we were thinking.
The earl of Chesterfield attacked this inglorious measure with all the weight of argument, and all the poignancy of satire.
Now odd spasmodic pains recurred without rhyme or reason in her head, her back, her limbs, striking her with sudden poignancy, disappearing as suddenly.
Suddenly, with a poignancy that was almost pain, I wished Rakhal were standing here at my side.
To the rest, these poor bones might indeed bear mute witness to a tragedy, but a tragedy lacking outlines, vague, impersonal, without poignancy.
Now it was brought home to those most nearly concerned with that poignancy of realization of which only youth is capable.
On what subjects can we converse? I feel small doubt that his own sufferings will be hardly inferior in poignancy to mine.
It is the horrible contrast between my dreams and their realization that gives the keenest poignancy to my pangs.
And what adds an insupportable poignancy to the reflection is self-condemnation.
Though searching for the lost is an experience old as the world, its poignancy was new to me.
The familiar scene emphasized her sense of dependence upon him and gave a sweet poignancy to the memories of her childhood and youth that were enshrined within the cottage walls.
It was practical in its dreams, and they had their disturbing unhappiness, as well, from the greater poignancy of her desire.
But by the end of the third twenty-four hours, with his first two worries reasonably eliminated, it was the accident to his plans that smote upon him with the fiercest poignancy.
Since then the poignancy of my regret when I think of it has never softened.

Similar words containing POIGNAN without suffix cy

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