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Paynim vs Painim - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between paynim and painim

is that paynim is (archaic) a pagan or heathen, especially a muslim or jew while painim is .

paynim

English

Alternative forms

* paynym

Noun

(en noun)
  • (archaic) A pagan or heathen, especially a Muslim or 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 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.

    • painim

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)