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单词 formidability
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formidabilityn.

Etymology: < formidable adj.: see -bility , -ity suffix.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˌformidaˈbility.
The quality of being formidable.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [noun] > quality of being difficult or formidable
formidableness1660
formidability1745
1745 H. Walpole Let. 22 Nov. in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) II. 98 A Mackintosh has been taken, who reduces their formidability, by being sent to raise two clans.
1754 P. Hiffernan Hiberniad iii. 24 There would be an Air of Formidability in..his..Assertions.
1860 J. E. Worcester Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing Q. Rev.).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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