Definition of Trenchantly

1. Adverb. In a vigorous and effective manner. "He defended his client's civil rights trenchantly"

Partainyms: Trenchant

Definition of Trenchantly

1. adv. In a trenchant, or sharp, manner; sharply; severely.

Definition of Trenchantly

1. Adverb. In a trenchant manner. ¹

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Definition of Trenchantly

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trenchantly

trench foot
trench hand
trench knife
trench lung
trench mentalities
trench mentality
trench mortar
trench mouth
trench nephritis
trench plate
trench warfare
trenchancies
trenchancy
trenchand
trenchant
trenchantly (current term)
trenchantness
trenchcoat
trenchcoated
trenchcoats
trenched
trencher
trencherful
trencherfuls
trencherlike
trencherman
trenchermanship
trenchermen
trenchers
trenches

Literary usage of Trenchantly

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Zionism by Richard James Horatio Gottheil (1914)
"... would some day become invested with reality, and which Ahad ha-Am has so trenchantly described as possessing " a strong attraction for all of them, ..."

2. The Life, Times, and Correspondence of the Right Rev. Dr. Doyle, Bishop of by William John Fitzpatrick (1861)
"Dr. Doyle did not believe in Mr. Wolff's " great humility," and responded trenchantly as follows: " Carlow, 17th October, 1826. " SIR—I have received your ..."

3. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone by John Morley (1911)
"... and dealt as trenchantly with Ward as Ward himself had dealt trenchantly with the reformers and all others whom he found planted in his dialectic way. ..."

4. The Natural History Review: A Quarterly Journal of Biological Science by Armagh Natural History and Philosophical Society, Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society, Cork Scientific and Literary Society, Cuvierian Society of Cork, Dublin University Zoological and Botanical Association, Literary and Scientific Instit (1854)
"... and theirs, are further trenchantly between the members of these latter, ... but which cannot be collected into all trenchantly limited, whose genera ..."

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