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Definition of Clinchingly
1. Adverb. in a clinching manner, in a manner which serves to clinch something ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clinchingly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clinchingly
Literary usage of Clinchingly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1907)
""There must be people left in the world to cut the turf for hell," said my sister
clinchingly and triumphantly. The question of turf, indeed, ..."
2. Libraries and Founders of Libraries by Edward Edwards (1864)
"In his Introduction, Mr. Hardy has shown, both pleasantly and clinchingly, how
often the very legend itself enwraps some vital truth of history. ..."
3. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by Charles Fossey, George Saintsbury, Berlin Staatliche Museen (East Berlin)., Thomas Hardy (1902)
"... To ease some mighty wish to tell: " 'Twas I," said she, " Who wrote thus
clinchingly. VII " My lover's wife—aye, wife !—knew nought Of what we felt, ..."
4. Words to the Wise--and Others by Ellen Burns Sherman (1907)
"enlarging for a few minutes upon her everyday qualifications for the place,
Bridget gave a comprehensive glance at Mrs. Carlyle's pale face and clinchingly ..."
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