Meaning of Dint | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Especially in by dint of: force, power.
   countable, uncountable
2. Pronunciation spelling of didn’t.
   alt-of, contraction, pronunciation-spelling
3. The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
   countable, uncountable
4. A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel / The dint of pity”

“It was by dint of passing strength / That he moved the massy stone at length.”

“[D]epe wͭ dynt the ſword enforced furſt / had ranſakt through his ribs ⁊ ſwete whyte breſt at once had burſt.”

“His hands had made a dint, and hurt his maid; / Explored her limb by limb, and feared to find / So rude a gripe had left a livid mark behind.”

“[A]nd read the naked shield, […] Of every dint a sword had beaten in it, / And every scratch a lance had made upon it”

“Much daunted with that dint, her sence was dazd […]”

“Between them cross-bows stood, and engines wrought / To cast a stone, a quarry, or a dart, // From whence, like thunder's dint, or lightnings new, / Against the bulwarks stones and lances flew.”

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