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

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

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Some girls who went through the home weren’t teenagers at all but pregnant preteens—children whose pregnancies were by dint of their age extremely physically and psychologically risky.

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"The difference between her experience and my dad's," Ranganathan said, "is my dad was going off to work, where you're immediately thrust into social connections and situations and you're making friends just by dint of that being your lifestyle."

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He can get them to do things by dint of their friendship—things that other presidents cannot.

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In presenting many of his bills or ideas, he acted as if they should pass by dint of their sheer excellence—as if old-school politicking was unnecessary and even distasteful.

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