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Enpierce vs Empierce - What's the difference?

enpierce | empierce |

As verbs the difference between enpierce and empierce

is that enpierce is (obsolete) to pierce while empierce is to pierce through.

enpierce

English

Verb

(enpierc)
  • (obsolete) To pierce.
    • I am too sore enpierced with his shaft. (Shakespeare) (Webster 1913)

    empierce

    English

    Verb

    (empierc)
  • To pierce through.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xi:
  • *:The weapon bright / Taking aduantage of his open iaw, / Ran through his mouth with so importune might, / That deepe emperst his darksome hollow maw [...].