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Definitions
interchangeable with ‘means’ in the expression ‘by means of’
Word origin
From Middle English dint, dent, dünt, from Old English dynt (“dint, blow, strike, stroke, bruise, stripe; the mark left by a blow; the sound or noise made by a blow, thud”), from Proto-Germanic *duntiz (“a blow”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰen- (“to strike, hit”). Cognate with Swedish dialectal dunt, Icelandic dyntr (“a dint”). Doublet of dent.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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