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verb
Blench  v. i. & v. t.  To grow or make pale.


Blench  v. t.  
1.
To baffle; to disconcert; to turn away; also, to obstruct; to hinder. (Obs.) "Ye should have somewhat blenched him therewith, yet he might and would of likelihood have gone further."
2.
To draw back from; to deny from fear. (Obs.) "He now blenched what before he affirmed."


Blench  v. i.  (past & past part. blenched; pres. part. blenching)  
1.
To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail. "Blench not at thy chosen lot." "This painful, heroic task he undertook, and never blenched from its fulfillment."
2.
To fly off; to turn aside. (Obs.) "Though sometimes you do blench from this to that."


noun
Blench  n.  A looking aside or askance. (Obs.) "These blenches gave my heart another youth."





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"Blench" Quotes from Famous Books



... rare. For the most part men stick to their party and die as foolish as they were born—which is called consistency. Convinced sometimes against their will, they are of the same opinion still. Loyalty and obstinacy will look facts in the face and never blench, and every one remains truer to his social circle than to his private judgments. People's politics are their prejudices at a masked ball, and the Conservatives will vote Conservative and the Liberals Liberal, through a cannonade ...
— Without Prejudice • Israel Zangwill
... feel sure I should have ended by putting a dice-box into her hands. Do not blush. No true man need blush that he has loved such a woman: and you are both true men, if a trifle obstinate—justi et tenaces propositi. Men of your character, Flaccus tells us, do not blench at the thunderbolts of Jove himself; and truly, I can well imagine his missile fizzing harmlessly into your party hedge, unable to decide between the pavilion of Captain John and the pavilion of Captain Jeremy. ...
— The Blue Pavilions • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... on Agnes, and its rays nestled between the ringlets and her downy cheek, but its cold beams could not blench the rosy hue, that mounted to her blue veined temples, as Mr. Preston severed the fragrant exotic from its stem, and carefully pressed it between the leaves of his tablets. Many such words followed, and I walked unheeded beside them, as they lingered in this ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 • Various
... looked out on the map, but the chauffeur, trained to the hour, did not blench. However, when he found the Rue Delambre, the success with which he repudiated it ...
— The Lion's Share • E. Arnold Bennett
... been the last to turn from the shambles. Men called him cruel and vengeful even for those days—gone by now, thank God!—and whispered his name when they spoke of assassinations; saying commonly of him that he would not blench before a Guise, nor blush before ...
— The House of the Wolf - A Romance • Stanley Weyman


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