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dints

dints is the plural of dint.

Meaning of dint

Noun

dint (countable and uncountable, plural dints)

  1. Especially in by dint of: force, power.
    • O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel / The dint of pity1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  2. 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.1560 April 13 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Virgil, “The Nynth Boke”, in Thomas Phaer, transl., The Nyne Fyrst Bookes of the Eneidos of Virgil Converted into Englishe Vearse […], with So Muche...
  3. (obsolete) A blow, stroke, especially dealt in a fight.
    • Much daunted with that dint, her sence was dazd […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

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What is dints the plural of?
Dints is the plural of dint.

Words near dints in the dictionary

  1. dinted
  2. dinting
  3. dintless
  4. Dinton
  5. Dinton with Ford and Upton
  6. dints
  7. Dintsin
  8. Dinuba
  9. DiNucci
  10. dinuclear
  11. dinucleating

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