The quality or degree of being strong.
It requires great strength to lift heavy objects.
The intensity of a force or power; potency.
He had the strength of ten men.
The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
To strengthen (all senses).
ſtrengthed with all myght / thꝛowe hys gloꝛious power / vnto all pacience / and longe ſufferynge with ioyfulnes
From Middle English strengthe, from Old English strengþu (“strength”), from Proto-West Germanic *strangiþu (“strongness; strength”), equivalent to strong + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with ...
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