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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



... hold My evil, or roof it above? I cried for dancing of old, I cried in my heart for love: What dancing waiteth me now? What love that shall kiss my brow Nor blench at ...
— The Electra of Euripides • Euripides
... thing are you that seeming man must blench at a little blood? Are you yourself so innocent, you that know ...
— Martin Conisby's Vengeance • Jeffery Farnol
... not blenched, even then. She had not blenched since. And she never would blench. In spite of his gorgeous position and his unique reputation, in spite of her well-concealed but notorious pride in him, he still went in fear of that ageless woman, whose undaunted eye always told him that he was still the lad Denry, ...
— The Regent • E. Arnold Bennett
... place? Where had he come from? How had he been hidden all these years? What was all this frenzy of rejoicing, this blare of trumpets, these ranks of grim men with weapons in their hands? The stunning truth fell on her; but, though she felt that all was lost, not a whit did she blench, but fronted them all as proudly as ever. One cannot but admire the dauntless woman, 'magnificent in sin.' But her cry of 'Treason! treason!' brought none to her side. As she stood solitary there, she must have felt that her day was over, and that nothing ...
— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren
... aware that a ring was forming round him. He cast a hasty glance about the lowering faces and recognized some of his would-be hecklers of the afternoon. No Tarpaulin Islanders were there. He was a stranger in a strange land. But the Whittington in him was up, and he did not blench. He faced ...
— Jim Spurling, Fisherman - or Making Good • Albert Walter Tolman


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