Definitions
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- adverb in a
clinching manner, in a manner which serves toclinch something
Etymologies
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clinching + -ly
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Examples
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"Funiculi funicula Vincente y Blasco Ibanez vermicelli sul campo della gloria risotto!" said the second waiter clinchingly, and scored a technical knockout.
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Then with a jerk, she turned the whole upper part of her body toward her husband, the attorney; her hands resting in her lap, she stared clinchingly and suckingly into his face, while she herself became visibly whiter.
Loulou 1921
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"And we _know_ you haven't got a tail at all," Maria added, clinchingly.
The Extra Day Algernon Blackwood 1910
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Finally, and clinchingly, the main body of the whole
Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas William Charles Henry Wood 1905
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