The heat, or utmost violence, of an onset; the strength or greatest fury of any contention; as, the brunt of a battle.
The force of a blow; shock; collision. "And heavy brunt of cannon ball." Hudibras. It is instantly and irrecoverably scattered by our first brunt with some real affair of common life. I. Taylor.
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