Word to the Wise: Trenchant

“Trenchant” (TREN-chunt) – from the French for “to cut” – means incisive or keen; clearly or sharply defined.

Example (as used by Megan Marshall in a New York Times review of We Two by Gillian Gill): “Gill’s vivid and deeply reasoned account of Queen Victoria’s marriage should be read alongside Phyllis Rose’s still trenchant Parallel Lives, with its portraits of the marriages of five 19th century British literary lions.”

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