pean

plural peans

1. governmentA heraldic fur of gold spots on a black field.

1. not comparablegovernmentIn blazon, a heraldic fur of a black field with gold spots.

plural peans

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of paean.

   Antimodern romanticism is not primarily a complaint about lost nature; it is mainly a pean to lost values. Modernity is relativistic, the existentialists complain; it has lost a sense of real values, true courage, meaningful integrity.

   2007, Michael J. Mazarr, “The Existentialist Diagnosis”, in Unmodern Men in the Modern World: Radical Islam, Terrorism, and the War on Modernity, Cambridge; New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 81

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   The barbarian, wandering in nature's wilds, plucking the fruits as they grow, or destroying the game for his meat, and quenching his thirst with the waters of the gurgling rill, may furnish the poet with a theme for a pean to the goddess of Natural Liberty; but he will be a barbarian still, and his children after him, will roam over the same uncultivated wastes, and sleep in the same caves and dens, until they learn to associate with others and combine their efforts for mutual good.

   1843 February, I. D. W., “Association”, in James E. Ridgely, editor, The Covenant and Official Magazine of the Grand Lodge of the United States, I[ndependent] O[rder of] O[dd] F[ellows]: A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Cause of Odd Fellowship, volume II, number 2, →OCLC, page 68

present singular third person peans · participle present peaning · participle past peaned · past peaned

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of paean.

plural peans

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of peen.

present singular third person peans · participle present peaning · participle past peaned · past peaned

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of peen.