¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flinching
1. flinch [v] - See also: flinch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flinching
Literary usage of Flinching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Whaling Cruise to Baffin's Bay and the Gulf of Boothia: And an Account of by Albert Hastings Markham, Sherard Osborn (1874)
"After the operation of flinching is concluded, the upper deck, as may be imagined,
... Our men were remarkably quick in flinching this our first whale, ..."
2. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"... in Mid-air — Indescribable Agonies — Lips that Never Murmur — Dressing the
Wounds — The Consequences of Flinching under the Knife — The " Sun Dance " of ..."
3. A History of the English Poor Law: In Connection with the State of the by George Nicholls, Thomas Mackay (1904)
"... at the Central Board—Its alleged " flinching." CONTROVERSY was not, of course,
confined to those actually engaged in the administration of the law. ..."
4. A Supplement to A Treatise on the System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law by John Henry Wigmore (1915)
"541, 100 NW 788 (testimony as to an injured person's "flinching," etc., at the
touch of a doctor called a week before trial, and not for treatment, ..."
5. A Portion of the Journal Kept by Thomas Raikes, Esq., from 1831 to 1847 by Thomas Raikes (1856)
"... and Holland, who make head against the revolutionary system without flinching;
while England and France, who profess to advocate it, are daily shuffling ..."
6. The Church Cyclopædia: A Dictionary of Church Doctrine, History by Angelo Ames Benton (1884)
"... in the New Testament, one whose awful personality only Christian faith can
face without flinching. Unbelief has no refuge but to deny his existence. ..."
Other Resources:
