by dint of

1. By means of, as in By dint of hard work he got his degree in three years. The word dint, which survives only in this expression, originally meant “a stroke or blow,” and by the late 1500s signified the force behind such a blow. The current term preserves the implication of vigorous or persistent means.

Example Sentences

By dint of their social status and his achievements, the sisters intersected with a cavalcade of famous figures: Washington and his wife, Martha; Benjamin Franklin; the Marquis de Lafayette; Thomas Jefferson; James and Dolley Madison; the painter John Trumbull; and, fatefully, Aaron Burr.

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By dint of pandemic pauses and far-flung locales around the U.K.’s Cotswolds and on the Welsh Borders, the lineup managed to quietly ferment and realize some of that long-ago unknown magical mystery.

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By dint of geography and personalities, Brooklyn is now central to a contest former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a chief Mamdani opponent, portrayed in existential terms during a campaign stop there.

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Jack eventually befriends the upstart political populist Willie Stark, who, by dint of his will and eloquent diatribes against the wealthy establishment, is elected governor.

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Yet by dint of personality alone, Son immediately lightened the mood.

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