Definitions for puisnes

puisnes puis·ne

Spelling: [pyoo-nee]
IPA: /ˈpyu ni/

Puisnes is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 142 anagrams from letters in puisnes (einpssu).

Definitions for puisnes

noun

  1. an associate judge as distinguished from a chief justice.

adjective

  1. Law. younger; inferior in rank; junior, as in appointment.

Origin of puisnes

1590-1600; Anglo-French, equivalent to Old French puis after (Latin posteā) + ne born, past participle of naistre to be born (Latin nāscere); cf. puny

Examples for puisnes

After a quarter of a century of successful practice he was appointed 1808 a puisne judge of the Supreme Court.

In 1874 appointed a puisne judge of the Supreme Court of Quebec.

The salary of a puisne judge of the Court of Session in Scotland!

All who had for five years filled the office of puisne judge.

puisne, pū′ne, adj. (law) younger or inferior in rank, applied to certain judges in England.

In the House of Lords they vote one by one, beginning with the junior, called the puisne baron.

After them came the Ricks-Senators in their order, the puisne first.

More than once he betrayed a disposition to take refuge in his class (he being son to one of the puisne Judges).

The two northern ones, with their vast populations and immense amount of work, are the bugbear of the puisne judge.

Appointed a puisne judge of the Court of Queen's Bench, 1837.

Word Value for puisnes
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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