Paynim vs Paynyma - What's the difference?
paynim | paynyma |
(archaic) A pagan or heathen, especially a Muslim or Jew.
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*: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 kny?t / thenne said Kyng mark that was syre launcelot or syre palomydes the paynym
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.3:
*: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.
*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.