strengthful
adjEtymology From Middle English strengthful, strenkyþfull, equivalent to strength + -ful.
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Archaic Full of strength; strong; having strength; powerful.
- 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, [...]'1909, Marshall Pinckney Wilder, The ten books of the merrymakers:
- But they were both fervent and sincere and breathed of a hopeful, a strengthful, and a trustful spirit.1913, Philo Adams Otis, The First Presbyterian church, 1833-1913:
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- The longer that sin is indulged, the mightier, the more strengthful, the more binding does it become in a human life.1917, George Washington Truett, James Britton Cranfill, A Quest for Souls:
- Antonyms
- strengthless
- Derived terms
- strengthfully, strengthfulness