Crossword-Solution: DINT
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dint | n. | A blow; a stroke. |
| Dint | n. | The mark left by a blow; an indentation or impression made by violence; a dent. |
| Dint | n. | Force; power; -- esp. in the phrase by dint of. |
| Dint | v. t. | To make a mark or cavity on or in, by a blow or by pressure; to dent. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DINT | anagram | INTD, TIND |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TERAE
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greedy person
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Sentences with DINT (5)
But thou O Father, I forewarn thee, shun His deadly arrow; neither vainly hope To be invulnerable in those bright Arms, Though temper’d heav’nly, for that mortal dint, Save he who reigns above, none can resist.
His son lacked not merely the father’s eminent position, but the talent and force of character to achieve it: he could, therefore, effect nothing by dint of political interest; and the bare justice or legality of the claim was not so apparent, after the Colonel’s decease, as it had been pronounced in his lifetime.
But at length, by dint of commands, and threats that he would enter the city alone, they agreed to accompany him.
Ichabod! Ichabod! the glory hath departed from my house!” “Friends,” said the Chief, looking round, “the old man is but a Jew, natheless his grief touches me.—Deal uprightly with us, Isaac—will paying this ransom of a thousand crowns leave thee altogether penniless?” Isaac, recalled to think of his worldly goods, the love of which, by dint of inveterate habit, contended even with his parental affection, grew pale, stammered, and could not deny there might be some small surplus.
From him Tarzan learned, by dint of much coaxing, that a party of whites had passed through the village several days before.
Quotes with DINT (3)
[People] ask themselves, what is suitable for my position? What is usually done by persons of my station and percuniary circumstances? Or (worse still) what is usually done by persons of a station and circumstances superior to mine? I do not mean that they choose what is customary in preference to what suits their own inclinations. It does not occur to them to have any inclination, except for what is customary. Thus the mind itself is bowed to the yoke: even in what people do…
Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing -- by dint of ignorance and innocence -- that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way.
So, ‘sensation’ and ‘judgment’ have together lost their apparent clearness: we have observed that they were clear only as long as the prejudice in favour of the world was maintained. As soon as one tried by means of them, to picture consciousness in the process of perceiving, to revive the forgotten perceptual experience, and to relate them to it, they were found to be inconceivable. By dint of making these difficulties more explicit, we were drawn implicitly into a new kind …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 149 times in crossword archives (1942–2024).