clinchingly
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clinchingly (comparative more clinchingly, superlative most clinchingly)
- in a clinching manner, in a manner which serves to clinch something
- 1901, Thomas Hardy, “The Tree: An Old Man's Story”, in Poems of the Past and the Present[1], Stanza VI, p. 437:
- She waited, till with quickened breath
She spoke, as one who banisheth
Reserves that lovecraft heeds so well,
To ease some mighty wish to tell:
“’Twas I,” said she,
“Who wrote thus clinchingly.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 11, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
- “I wouldn't be at all surprised if he drank a lot,” said Lady Partridge, with a hint of solidarity. ¶ “And then, of course,” said Nick clinchingly, but with a sad loll of the head, “he jumped off a bridge into the Mississippi.”
- 2015 October 21, “Spelling mistake in forged document leads to murder conviction”, in The Times of India:
- These circumstances are clinchingly against the appellant.