dint
noun
force; power.
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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The same coquetry of Nature that rippled her hair has dinted her cheeks with shifting dimples.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 by Various