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intrenchant

intrenchant adjective: not to be cut or sliced.

Adjective

intrenchant (comparative more intrenchant, superlative most intrenchant)

  1. (obsolete) Not to be cut or sliced.
    • As easy mayest thou the intrenchant air With thy keen sword impress, as make me bleed.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...

Forms of intrenchant

comparativemore intrenchant
superlativemost intrenchant

Origin of intrenchant

From in- + trenchant.

Questions about intrenchant

What does intrenchant mean?
Intrenchant means not to be cut or sliced.
What part of speech is intrenchant?
Intrenchant is an adjective.

Words near intrenchant in the dictionary

  1. intreating
  2. intreatingly
  3. intreats
  4. intreaty
  5. intrench
  6. intrenchant
  7. intrenched
  8. intrencher
  9. intrenchers
  10. intrenches
  11. intrenching

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