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strengthful, a.|ˈstrɛŋθfʊl|
[f. strength n. + -ful.]
Full of or characterized by strength.
1382Wyclif 2 Sam. i. 19 What maner wise fellen the strengthful [Vulg. fortes]? c1450Mirour Saluacioun 2547 Bot crist prayed with swete teres and strengthfulle voice crying. 1584Cogan Haven Health ccxl. 236 To make butterd Beere..Some put in the yolk of an egge or two.., and so they make it more strengthfull. 1604Marston Malcontent ii. iii. 146 We are of Medicis; Florence our friend; in court my faction Not meanly strengthful [etc.]. 1830Lamb Let. to Ayrton 14 Mar., All which fancies, redolent of middle age and strengthful spirits, come across us ever and anon in this vale of deliberate senectitude. 1866[Miss Thackeray] Village on Cliff xii, Therein did her healthy and strengthful nature reassert itself, battling with these invisible foes.
Hence ˈstrengthfulness.
1846in Worcester (citing Westm. Rev.). 1855in Ogilvie Suppl. |