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      "str\u025b\u014bk\u03b8",
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      "From Middle English strengthe, from Old English streng\u00feu (\u201cstrength\u201d), from Proto-West Germanic strangi\u00feu (\u201cstrongness; strength\u201d), equivalent to strong + -th. Cognate with Dutch strengte (\u201cstrength\u201d), German Low German Strengde, Strengte (\u201charshness; rigidity; strictness; severity\u201d)."
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        "name": "Noun",
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            "mean": "The quality or degree of being strong.\nAntonym: weakness\nIt requires great strength to lift heavy objects.\nc. 1606 (date written),  William Shakespeare,  \u201cThe Tragedie of Macbeth\u201d, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies\u00a0 (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, \u2192OCLC, :Our castle\u2019s strength will laugh a siege to scorn.\n1918,  W B Maxwell,  chapter V, in  The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, \u2192OCLC:He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights,   , the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength\u2014all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts."
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            "mean": "The intensity of a force or power; potency.\nHe had the strength of ten men.\n1699,  William Temple,  Heads designed for an essay on conversations\u200e: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."
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            "mean": "The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based.\n1611,  The Holy Bible,\u00a0 (King James Version), London:    Robert Barker,\u00a0, \u2192OCLC, Psalms 46:1:God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.\n1649,  Jeremy Taylor,  The Great Examplar of Sanctity and Holy Life according to the Christian Institution\u200e, London: Francis Ash, Part 1, Section 4, Discourse 2, p. 66:  certainly there is not in the world a greater strength against temptations, then is deposited in an obedient understanding   ."
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            "mean": "A positive attribute.\nAntonym: weakness\nWe all have our own strengths and weaknesses."
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            "mean": "(obsolete) An armed force, a body of troops.\n1591 (date written),  William Shakespeare,  \u201cThe First Part of Henry the Sixt\u201d, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies\u00a0 (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, \u2192OCLC, :Thou princely leader of our English strength,Never so needful on the earth of France,\nc. 1596 (date written),  William Shakespeare,  \u201cThe Life and Death of King Iohn\u201d, in  Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies\u00a0 (First Folio), London:    Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, \u2192OCLC, :That done, dissever your united strengths,And part your mingled colours once again;"
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            "mean": "(obsolete) A strong place; a stronghold.\n1667,  John Milton,  \u201cBook VII\u201d, in  Paradise Lost.\u00a0, London:    ,\u00a0, \u2192OCLC; republished as  Paradise Lost in Ten Books:\u00a0, London: Basil Montagu Pickering\u00a0, 1873, \u2192OCLC, lines 140-143:All like himself rebellious, by whose aidThis inaccessible high strength, the seatOf Deitie supream, us dispossest,He trusted to have seis\u2019d"
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            "mean": "(obsolete) To strengthen (all senses). \n1526,  ,  The Newe Testam\u1ebdt\u00a0 (Tyndale Bible), , \u2192OCLC, Colossians j:, folio cclviiii, verso:\u017ftrengthed with all myght / th\ua75bowe hys glo\ua75bious power / vnto all pacience / and longe \u017fufferynge with ioyfulnes\n1529,  John Frith,  A pi\u017ftle to the Chri\u017ften reader  \u200e:Then \u017fhalt thow perceave what it meaneth that the power of this wretched mon\u017ftre / mu\u017ft be \u017ftrengthed / by anothers power and not by his awne.\n1550,  Edward Halle,  \u201cKing Henry the viij.\u201d, in  The Vnion of the Two Noble and Illu\u017ftre Famelies of Lanca\u017ftre and Yo\ua75bke\u200e, page 1271:In witnes wherof we haue cau\u017fed this p\ua75be\u017fent w\ua75biting to be \u017ftrengthed with the \u017feal of our facultie \nSynonyms: see Thesaurus:strengthen"
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