Synonyms for dint

Grammar : Noun

Spell : dint

Phonetic Transcription : dɪnt

Définition of dint

Origin : Old English dynt "blow dealt in fighting" (especially by a sword), from Proto-Germanic *duntiz (cf. Old Norse dyntr "blow, kick"). Phrase by dint of ... "by force of, by means of," is early 14c.

noun impression

Example sentences :

Excellence in art, as in everything else, can only be achieved by dint of painstaking labour.
Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles

He amused them and made himself their idol by dint of alternate flattery and blame.
Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola

We shall enter it as conquerors, by dint of producing masterpieces.
Extract from : « His Masterpiece » by Emile Zola

The price of it was three sous, but, by dint of bargaining, she got it for two.
Extract from : « The Fat and the Thin » by Emile Zola

This was run into the corner, and Tom o' Dint and fiddle were seated on top of it.
Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine

By dint of hard work he rose to be confidential clerk when he was twenty-three.
Extract from : « Australia Revenged » by Boomerang

My task was to destroy the board by dint of driving into it the point of my tool.
Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt

By dint of persuasion, Young forced the boy to give his father's name.
Extract from : « Tess of the Storm Country » by Grace Miller White

Indeed, it was only by dint of self-control that he could be civil to his host.
Extract from : « The Doctor of Pimlico » by William Le Queux

But by dint of hard work Mr. Baxter succeeded in getting them started.
Extract from : « The Young Treasure Hunter » by Frank V. Webster

Antonyms for dint

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