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dint

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5
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6
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4
Pronunciation
/dɪnt/

Definition of dint

5 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Especially in by dint of: force, power.
    “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.”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Especially in by dint of: force, power.
    “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.”
  2. (countable, uncountable)The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent.
    “[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”
  3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.
    “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.”

verb

  1. To dent.
    “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!”

contraction

  1. (alt-of, contraction, pronunciation-spelling)Pronunciation spelling of didn’t.

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Etymology

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.

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