strength
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Definitions & Usage
The quality or degree of being strong.
The intensity of a force or power; potency.
The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based.
A positive attribute.
(obsolete) An armed force, a body of troops.
(obsolete) A strong place; a stronghold.
(graph theory) The minimum ratio of the number of edges removed from a given graph to components created, over all possible removals.
Notable Literary & Historical Quotes
“Our castle’s strength will laugh a siege to scorn.”
— c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene v]:
“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—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.”
— 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
“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.”
— 1699, William Temple, Heads designed for an essay on conversations: