0 as a result of something:
She got what she wanted by dint of pleading and threatening.
1 a small hollow mark in the surface of something, caused by pressure or by being hit
2 If something is done by dint of something else, it is done as a result of that thing:
They may be drawing big money one day and "dinting" the next.
Additionally, many have dints that must be derived from rough handling before firing.
Long-serving freelancers are ' survivors ' and unusual by dint of their extensive experience.
Levering discovers him ' ' leaning against a post, and doing nothing with all the perfection his race has, by dint of generations of practice, brought to the thing.
By dint of its subject matter, this book should also have an audience outside the academy, but the jargon-laden first chapters will likely ensure that it does not.
The mystic will have to gain power, if that's what he is after, by the dint of his own personality and in ways which he himself must devise.
Apart from a cursory suggestion that a feature can be contracted through the principle of metaphorical extension or ' by dint of similarity ' (44), no further explanation is given.
By dint of the failure of the now virtually defunct traditional conventional democratic processes, they are driven to take direct action.
