dint

[prettygoodword]

dint (DINT) - n., force, effort, power.


Also, a alternate form of dent, as both noun and verb forms. In the main sense, almost always in the phrase "by dint of." The original, now obsolete, meaning is a blow dealt in fighting (especially by a sword, says one dictionary), which sense goes back to Old English dynt -- it acquired the "by means of" sense in the 14th century.

---L.

Comments

[spacedlaw.livejournal.com]

Nifty. I'll try this in my next meeting.

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

The next corporate buzzword?

---L.