† strengestadj.
Obsolete.
Strongest (see the senses of strong adj.).
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the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily strength > [adjective] > strongest
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the world > action or operation > advantage > efficacy > [adjective] > greatly > in the utmost degree
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sovereign1377
extreme1595
sovrana1834
the world > action or operation > safety > [adjective] > safe or invulnerable > not effectively assailable > in the utmost degree
strengest1490
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > [adjective] > extremely vigorous > most vigorous
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c893 tr. Orosius Hist. iii. x. (Sweet) 138 Feower þa strengstan þeoda.
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 144 Ha [sc. humility] is þinge strengest.
a1450 Knt. de la Tour xxiv. 34 And thanne he required hem that the strengest hore of hem shulde smite furst the stroke.
1471 J. Fortescue Wks. (1869) 534 This is the strengyst argument that is made in the said boke.
1486 Bk. St. Albans, Her. a v b Olibion was the stryngest and the manfullest man in his tyme.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) ix. 208 Ye made hym the castel of Mountalban vpon the strengest grounde that is wythin your royame.
c1500 Melusine (1895) vi. 33 I neuer sawe hym syn that the chasse was at the strengest.
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