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panym

panym is the obsolete form of paynim.

Meaning of paynim

Noun

paynim (plural paynims)

  1. (archaic) A pagan or heathen, especially a Muslim, or a Jew.
    • But there was one knyght that dyd merueyllously thre dayes / and he bare a black shelde / and of alle knyghtes that euer I sawe he preued the best knyȝt / thenne said Kyng mark that was syre launcelot or syre palomydes the paynym1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxxviij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IX

Forms of panym

pluralpanyms

Questions about panym

What is panym the obsolete form of?
Panym is the obsolete form of paynim.

Words near panym in the dictionary

  1. panyarred
  2. panyarring
  3. panyars
  4. panyas
  5. Panyjima
  6. panym
  7. panyms
  8. Panytyima
  9. Panyu
  10. Panza
  11. Panzaism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: panym (page history and authors); paynim (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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