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strength
English
Etymology
From Middle English strengthe, from Old English strengþu (“strength”), from Proto-West Germanic *strangiþu (“strongness; strength”), equivalent to strong +? -th. Cognate with Dutch strengte (“strength”), German Low German Strengde, Strengte (“harshness; rigidity; strictness; severity”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /st???k?/, [st??????k?], [st?????n??]
- (pin–pen merger) IPA(key): [st??????k?]
- Rhymes: -???, -?n?
Noun
strength (countable and uncountable, plural strengths)
- The quality or degree of being strong.
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene 5,[1]
- Our castle’s strength will laugh a siege to scorn.
- Antonym: weakness
- c. 1605, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene 5,[1]
- The intensity of a force or power; potency.
- 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
- 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations
- The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Psalm 46.1,[2]
- God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
- 1649, Jeremy Taylor, The Great Examplar of Sanctity and Holy Life according to the Christian Institution, London: Francis Ash, Part 1, Section 4, Discourse 2, p. 66,[3]
- […] certainly there is not in the world a greater strength against temptations, then is deposited in an obedient understanding […] .
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Psalm 46.1,[2]
- A positive attribute.
- Antonym: weakness
- (obsolete) An armed force, a body of troops.
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act IV, Scene 3,[4]
- Thou princely leader of our English strength,
- Never so needful on the earth of France,
- c. 1596, William Shakespeare, King John, Act II, Scene 1,[5]
- That done, dissever your united strengths,
- And part your mingled colours once again;
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act IV, Scene 3,[4]
- (obsolete) A strong place; a stronghold.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 7, lines 140-143,[6]
- All like himself rebellious, by whose aid
- This inaccessible high strength, the seat
- Of Deitie supream, us dispossest,
- He trusted to have seis’d […]
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Verb
strength (third-person singular simple present strengths, present participle strengthing, simple past and past participle strengthed)
- (obsolete) To strengthen (all senses). [12th-17th c.]
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:strengthen
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bravery
English
Etymology
French braverie
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?b?e?v.?.?i/, /?b?e?v.?i/
Noun
bravery (usually uncountable, plural braveries)
- (usually uncountable) Being brave, courageousness.
- (countable) A brave act.
- Splendor, magnificence
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 34:
- Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,
- And make me travel forth without my cloak,
- To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way,
- Hiding thy brav'ry in their rotten smoke?
- In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon
- 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 34:
Synonyms
- (being brave): bravehood, braveness, courageousness, fearlessness; courage, pluck, valor; see also Thesaurus:courage
Related terms
- bravado
- brave
- bravure
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