Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being formidable; formidableness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Formidableness.
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- noun the state of being
formidable
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- noun impressive difficulty
Etymologies
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Examples
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In a context like modern Iraq or the ancient Near East, where disputes are often settled without recourse to police or law, "formidability" is a social asset.
Valerie Tarico: God's Emotions: Does God Get Angry? Valerie Tarico 2010
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In a context like modern Iraq or the ancient Near East, where disputes are often settled without recourse to police or law, "formidability" is a social asset.
Valerie Tarico: God's Emotions: Does God Get Angry? Valerie Tarico 2010
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In a context like modern Iraq or the ancient Near East, where disputes are often settled without recourse to police or law, "formidability" is a social asset.
Valerie Tarico: God's Emotions: Does God Get Angry? Valerie Tarico 2010
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In the New Year's message the prime minister laid out goals for 2011 in broad terms that include steps to help reignite Japan's economic formidability.
Kan Vows to Push Free-Trade Deal Yoree Koh 2011
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Fashion notes aside, all this analogizing is based on shaky history: its fans impute to the British Empire a formidability it never possessed.
Magic and Mayhem Derek Leebaert 2010
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Though her patriotic velour jog suit was quirky, her formidability was undeniable.
Fatal Circle Linda Robertson 2010
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Their formidability lies not just in the fact that they have tons of money to buy political favor but that they constitute the very life blood of the growth based economy; they literally and figuratively fuel the engine of growth.
Keith Harrington: Death by Growth: What the Climate-Bill Autopsies Missed 2010
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It increases formidability and, consequently, when I get angry, you pay more attention to my desires and less attention to your own.
Valerie Tarico: God's Emotions: Does God Get Angry? Valerie Tarico 2010
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Their formidability lies not just in the fact that they have tons of money to buy political favor but that they constitute the very life blood of the growth based economy; they literally and figuratively fuel the engine of growth.
Keith Harrington: Death by Growth: What the Climate-Bill Autopsies Missed 2010
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It increases formidability and, consequently, when I get angry, you pay more attention to my desires and less attention to your own.
Valerie Tarico: God's Emotions: Does God Get Angry? Valerie Tarico 2010
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