Definition of "sompnour" [somp•nour]

• Obsolete form of summoner. (noun)

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• "In contrast with the pardoner and "sompnour" we see the poor parson, full of goodness, charity, and love, -- a true shepherd and no mercenary, who waited upon no pomp and sought no worldly gains, happy only in the virtues which he both taught and lived."
• "Chaucer places the sompnour, or summoner to the Church courts."
• "Thus taking advantage of his plot to ridicule these characters, and to make them satirize each other -- as in the rival stories of the sompnour and friar -- he turns with pleasure from these betrayers of religion, to show us that there was a leaven of pure piety and devotion left."