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 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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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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