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Powerfulness

noun
1.
Possession of controlling influence.  Synonym: power.  "The power of his love saved her" , "His powerfulness was concealed by a gentle facade"





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"Powerfulness" Quotes from Famous Books



... submissive and pious, dutiful and virtuous wives, while the mistresses have been bold and frivolous, licentious and self-assertive. The women outside of these spheres either looked on with indifference or regret at the all-powerfulness of this latter class, unable to change conditions, or themselves enjoyed the privilege of ...
— Women of Modern France - Woman In All Ages And In All Countries • Hugo P. Thieme
... nature of a doughty heart, and who was now mighty withal, on account of the powerfulness of the wine which he had drunken, waited no longer to hold parley with the hermit, who, in sooth, was of an obstinate and maliceful turn, but, feeling the rain upon his shoulders, and fearing the rising of the tempest, uplifted his mace ...
— Selections From Poe • J. Montgomery Gambrill


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