Pronunciations
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/dɪnt/
Noun
Especially in by dint of: force, power.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
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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.
The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
Usage- Countable
- Uncountable
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[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.
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[A]nd read the naked shield, […] Of every dint a sword had beaten in it, / And every scratch a lance had made upon it
A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.
Usage- Countable
- Obsolete
- Uncountable
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Much daunted with that dint, her sence was dazd […]
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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.
Verb
To dent.
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Your helmet was dinted in as if by a great shot.
And, in that moment came one, fierce and wild of aspect, in dinted casque and rusty mail who stood and watched--ah God!
Noun
interchangeable with ‘means’ in the expression ‘by means of’