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Definition of Clenching
1. clench [v] - See also: clench
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clenching
Literary usage of Clenching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1839)
"... the sick refreshed, the unfaithful convicted and restored, and such as are
obstinate softened and fitted for reconciliation, which is clenching the nail ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1875)
"clenching of the fist. The movement began with the thumb, ... As before, clenching
of the fist ; at the same time the extensors of the wrist and fingers ..."
3. Annotations Upon Popular Hymns by Charles Seymour Robinson (1893)
"Just as I came up and was about to pass them, the virago, clenching her list and
stamping her foot at her imperturbable neighbor, exclaimed, ' Speak, ..."
4. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Fox, Thomas Ellwood (1832)
"... the sick refreshed, the unfaithful convicted and restored, and such as are
obstinate softened and fitted for reconciliation, which is clenching the nail ..."
5. Inquiry Into the Law and Practice in Scottish Peerages, Before, and After by John Riddell (1842)
"The clenching penalty here, of loss, or forfeiture of the " honour of arms," as
the climax of every turpitude, and condign infliction, — the severest to a ..."
6. Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and by Robert Chambers (1876)
"... And strives in vain his fettered limbs to clear, For death bids every clenching
joint adhere. All faint, to heaven he throws his dying eyes. ..."
7. Homœopathic therapeutics by Samuel Lilienthal (1879)
"night; screaming as if frightened; staring look, clenching of fingers: twitchings
in different parts of body. Teucrium. Terrible itching in anus from ..."
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