Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A pricking; puncture.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A puncturing, or pricking; a puncture.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A puncture or prick.

Etymologies

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Latin punctio, from pungere, punctum, to prick: compare French ponction. Compare puncheon.

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Examples

  • It and the SASE question should get married, have punction and spelling babies that run up and down the blog and break all the furniture.

    Thankfully I'd oiled and primed the Clue Blunderbuss Miss Snark 2006

  • Having broken so many impor'tant laws in a comparatively brief span he had no com-punction at mentioning yet another perfidy.

    Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982

  • Had Stile not pleaded for her, and had he not been valuable to the Citizen, Sheen would have been junked without com - punction.

    Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980

  • Had Stile not pleaded for her, and had he not been valuable to the Citizen, Sheen would have been junked without com - punction.

    Split Infinity Anthony, Piers 1980

  • I’m not sure if this an affirmation or question on your part, because of the punction, but if you meant to affirm this belief, I have to say, I don’t buy it.

    On victim-blaming and control 2005

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