clinchingly

comparative more clinchingly · superlative most clinchingly

1. in a clinching manner, in a manner which serves to clinch something

   These circumstances are clinchingly against the appellant.

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

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   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.

   1901, Thomas Hardy, “The Tree: An Old Man's Story”, in Poems of the Past and the Present, Stanza VI, p. 437

   “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.”

   2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 11, in The Line of Beauty […], London: Picador, →ISBN