fore-strength
nounEtymology From fore- + strength.
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That which leads to or engenders strength.
- Saying "Thermopylae" he thought "Leonidas." "Ay, of course; who knows not that?" The man was puzzled at Aristodemos's sudden wrath. "They gave their lives — those men — every one of them. They were the fore-strength of Salamis.1911, Caroline Dale Parke Snedeker, The Coward of Thermopylæ:
- Somewhere within my blood Is the fore-strength of peace1929, MacKnight Black, Machinery: