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- adjective Obsolete form of
powerful .
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Examples
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* Oh from what powre hast thou this powrefull might,
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Those powrefull eies, which lighten my dark spright;
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Expressing all thy mothers powrefull art: with which she wonts to temper angry loue, when all the gods he threats with thundring dart.
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LOng-while I sought to what I might compare those powrefull eies, which lighte [n] my dark spright, yet find I nought on earth to which I dare resemble th'ymage of their goodly light.
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1009: With all their powrefull friends are fled to him.
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445: That with some Mixtures, powrefull o're the blood,
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622: To fright me with your Sprights: you're powrefull at it.
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842: And swell his Saile with thine owne powrefull breath,
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284: Where 'tis predominant; and 'tis powrefull: thinke it:
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1048: Take not the quarrell from his powrefull arme:
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