pænultimate

[…] pereiopods 5 — 7 slender, with slender, drepaniform fingers, and with the pænultimate joints each provided with a spine on the hind margin […]

1942, Tromsø Museums Skrifter (Universitetsførlaget), volume 3, page 454

Whether the manuscripts were ‘Original’ or simply copies, the last half of the statement is certainly true, since this edition first prints a version of “for a’ that,” called “the bonniest lass” in ed. 1959, p. 69, which all critics agree is unquestionably by Burns, and which is, in that case, the closest he ever came to an apology or tu quoque for his erotic songs, in the pænultimate chorus on King Solomon: ‘The smuttiest sang that e’er was sung, his Sang o’ Sangs is a’ that.’

1964, Gershon Legman, The Horn Book: Studies in Erotic Folklore and Bibliography, University Books, page 163

A second type of colouration which occurs much more frequently and is much more significant is that which consists of a melismatic insertion prior to the ultimate or pænultimate note of a cadence or after an accent in either the Mediatio or Finalis.

1966, Victor Henry Mattfeld, Georg Rhaw’s Publications for Vespers (Institute of Mediaeval Music), page 296

The theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) expressed this idea when he said that humankind is living in the time “before the last” (pænultimate), and this can never have absolute validity.

1988, Karl-Reinhart Trauner, “From Neo-absolutism to Conciliation?”, in Security and Independency: The Third Reich as the Myth of the XXth Century?, page 33