Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Abounding in strength; strong.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong.
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- adjective archaic
strong , havingstrength .
Etymologies
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Examples
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She allows no makeshifts for the discipline of hard work and of self-denial, for the culture of all the strengthful qualities.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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She allows no makeshifts for the discipline of hard work and of self-denial, for the culture of all the strengthful qualities.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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She allows no makeshifts for the discipline of hard work and of self-denial, for the culture of all the strengthful qualities.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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She allows no makeshifts for the discipline of hard work and of self-denial, for the culture of all the strengthful qualities.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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She allows no makeshifts for the discipline of hard work and of self-denial, for the culture of all the strengthful qualities.
Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007
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And his face was quite as worthy as the substance leading up to it, being large and strengthful and slow to move, though quick to make others do so.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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So Esther's life grew and was fashioned; so amid the ceaseless round of simple daily occupations mistress and maid learned to know and to love one another, and became united and strengthful in the tender and ineffable sympathies of race and religion.
Esther Waters 1892
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She allows no makeshifts for the discipline of hard work and of self-denial, for the culture of all the strengthful qualities.
Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South Timothy Thomas Fortune 1892
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I couldn't bring myself to say 'No, Ethelinda, I can not be yours because my heart is set on a strengthful damsel with raven locks and eyes of coal, with lips a shade less cherry than thine, and a cheek more like the apple than the peach, who can go out on the links and play golf with me.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) Various 1887
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And his face was quite as worthy as the substance leading up to it, being large and strengthful and slow to move, though quick to make others do so.
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