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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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.