paynim
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editFrom Middle English paynym, paynyme, from Anglo-Norman paienime, peinime et al., from Late Latin paganismus (“paganism”), from Latin paganus (“pagan”).
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editpaynim (plural paynims)
- (archaic) A pagan or heathen, especially a Muslim, or a Jew.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxxviij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IX:
- 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 paynym
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- 1530, Thomas More, The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer, Preface to the Christian reader :
- And if it be idolatry to do as the paynims did—make an idol “God”—it must needs be much worse idolatry to do as these heretics do,
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- To this his native soyle thou backe shalt bring, / Strongly to ayde his countrey to withstand / The powre of forreine Paynims which invade thy land.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 763-6:
- (Though like a covered field, where champions bold / Wont ride in armed, and at the soldan's chair / Defied the best of paynim chivalry / To mortal combat, or career with lance).
- 1964, Anthony Burgess, Nothing Like The Sun:
- St Helen’s bell rang reminders that she lived, a paynim or Mahometan, in the church’s shadow.
Middle English
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editpaynim
- Alternative form of paynym
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