clinchingly

clinchingly

English

Etymology

clinching +‎ -ly

Adverb

clinchingly (comparative more clinchingly, superlative most clinchingly)

1. 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, 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, New York: Bloomsbury, OCLC 1036692193:

     “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, “Spelling mistake in forged document leads to murder conviction,” The Times of India, 21 October, 2015,

     These circumstances are clinchingly against the appellant.