piercing

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PIERCING, participle present tense pers'ing. Penetrating; entering, as a pointed instrument; making a way by force into another body. 1. Affecting deeply; as eloquence piercing the heart. 2. adjective Affecting; cutting; keen.
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