单词 | powerfulness |
释义 | powerfulnessn. The quality of being powerful; strength, potency; impressiveness, force. ΘΚΠ society > authority > power > [noun] i-waldeOE armOE craftOE mightOE poustiea1275 mound?a1300 powerc1300 force1303 mighta1325 wielda1325 mightiheada1382 mightinessc1390 mightheada1400 mightinga1400 puissance1420 mightfulnessa1425 vallente1475 potence1483 state1488 potencya1500 potestation?c1500 potent1512 puissantness1552 sinew1560 puissancy1562 potentness1581 powerableness1591 powerfulnessc1595 potestatea1600 pollency1623 potentiality1627 potentialness1668 poust1827 mana1843 magnum force1977 the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > effect produced on emotions > [noun] > quality of making impression powerfulnessc1595 impressivenessa1805 imposingness1813 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > high intelligence, genius > [noun] > breadth, depth, strength of intellect strengthOE largenessa1382 profoundnessc1475 breadth1532 profundity1559 amplitude1575 deptha1593 powerfulnessc1595 universality1605 fathoma1616 spaciousness1657 comprehensiveness1683 grasp1683 altitudo1933 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > powerfulness of voice powerfulness1824 c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxxix. 22 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 131 Who can maintaine With thee in powrfullnes a Riualls quarrell? 1605 M. Drayton Poems sig. Dd6v As though her words such powerfulnesse did beare. 1645 E. Pagitt Heresiography (ed. 2) 120 They know not the powerfulnesse of Gods grace. 1703 Source Present Fears Discover'd 14 Cardinal Mazarin had the same sentiments..concerning the powerfulness of a Free State. 1790 J. Whitaker Mary Queen Scots Vindicated (ed. 2) III. i. 15 A suppression after an exhibition, pleads more strongly perhaps, than a regular suppression from the beginning; certainly pleads with a decisive powerfulness; for the forgery of the letter. 1824 New Monthly Mag. 12 249/2 A certain degree of want of powerfulness [of voice] in various parts of her scale. 1843 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 6 108/1 The powerfulness, and variety of this splendid instrument. 1961 Chicago Rev. 15 No. 1. 94 Their art is an imitation of the inescapable powerfulness of this unknown and empty world. 1991 Social Work Today 21 Feb. 27/2 It says little about the powerfulness of the behaviour they will meet with. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1595 |
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