Meaning of puisne | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Younger; junior.
   obsolete
2. Insignificant, petty; ineffectual.
   obsolete
3. Inferior in rank, as designation of any justice, judge etc. other than the most senior.
4. Coming later in time; subsequent, secondary.

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 […].”

“the puisne barons of the Court of Exchequer”

“a puisne date to eternity”

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