puisne
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Is puisne a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Younger; junior.obsolete
2. (obsolete) Insignificant, petty; ineffectual.Examples: "it is not conceptible that in an infinite , or indeed in a very long period of Revolutions of Mankind , those or any things of this kind discoverable would have been of so late a puiſne a discovery"; "But this intrigue of the ancient is a piece of private history, the truth of which my beloved cares not to own, and indeed, affects to disbelieve. As she does also some puisne gallantries of her foolish brother […]."obsolete
3. (law) Inferior in rank, as designation of any justice, judge etc. other than the most senior.Examples: "the puisne barons of the Court of Exchequer"
4. (now law) Coming later in time; subsequent, secondary.Examples: "a puisne date to eternity"
Definition source: Wiktionary