[f. next: see -ANCY.] The quality of being trenchant, ‘sharp,’ or ‘cutting’; incisiveness; causticity.
1858. Morn. Chron., 2 March, 4/4. The Bill … has been supposed to constitute a weapon of resistless trenchancy.
1866. London Rev., 24 Nov., 568. Expected … to accept bitterness and passion for satire and trenchancy.
1877. Morley, Crit. Misc., Ser. II. 390. Trenchancy whether in speaker or writer is a most effective tone for a large public.
1892. Stevenson, Across the Plains, 203. With the same trenchancy of contrast.
