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▪ I. blenching, vbl. n.|ˈblɛnʃɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb blench: †a. Turning to one side, swerving, shying; †b. turning away of the eyes (? blinking, winking); c. flinching, quailing, loss of courage.
1393Gower Conf. III. 8, I stonde still, withoute blenching of min eye. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ii. v. (1495) 32 Angels..beholde streyght..in god..wythout blenchynge of theyr eyen. Ibid. xii. xxxix. (1495) 436 The reremous fleeth in the eue tyde wyth brekynge and blenchynge and swyfte meuynge. 1868Doran Saints & Sin. II. 186 He saw without blenching the rope by which he was to be strangled.
▪ II. ˈblenching, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
Causing the eyes to turn away or flinch.
1833Mrs. Browning Prometh. Bound Poems (1850) I. 186 Let him now hurl his blenching lightnings down. ― Grief ibid. I. 326 Under the blenching, vertical eye-glare Of the absolute Heavens. |