▪ I. † penant Obs.
Also aunt(e.
[ME. a. OF. penant, earlier peneant, -aant:—L. pænitēnt-em, penitent (by which penant was superseded a 1500).]
A penitent; one doing penance; in last quot., one suffering in purgatory.
| a 1300 St. Gregory 944 in Herrig Archiv LVII. 69 Penaunt he semeþ wel of siȝt. 13.. Cursor M. 26857 (Cott.) For fals penantes men sal þam tak. c 1400 26 Polit. Poems (E.E.T.S.) xxv. 476 Thys maketh me to drowpe and dare That I am lyke a pore penaunte. c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. xxix. (1869) 20 Vnshette þe doore, and make your penauntes [Fr. penans] entre in. |
▪ II. penant
variant of pennant2, kind of stone.