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Definition of "asquint" [a•squint]

  • With a sidelong glance. (adverb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "asquint" in a sentence
  • "I know God is wise in all; wonderful in what we conceive, but far more in what we comprehend not: for we behold him but asquint, upon reflex or shadow; our understanding is dimmer than"
  • "Christian use; and stand condemned by us, not as evil in themselves, but as allurements and baits of superstition to those vulgar heads that look asquint on the face of truth, and those unstable judgments that cannot resist in the narrow point and centre of virtue without a reel or stagger to the circumference."
  • "As to others, it was Sir Robert Filmer, a strong defender of patriarchal and monarchical authority, who observed that "Cardinal Bellarmine and Calvin both look asquint this way.""