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It is, therefore, best to value the pieces according to their latent strength, that is, the strength which is likely to show in the ending after all temporary obstructions have been removed.

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  1. noun The state, property, or quality of being strong.
  2. noun The power to resist attack; impregnability.
  3. noun The power to resist strain or stress; durability.

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  • One of our strength is our ability to upgrade our infrastructure and to offer new services or better services to our customers enjoy the new development in telecom technology.
  • However, their strength is also their main weakness, as the generated nonlinear models are typically regarded as incomprehensible black-box models. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • I have mentioned before that colour strength is a mater of personal taste. —  Cameras.co.uk - digital cameras - reviews and buyers guide
  • Lord Reginald seized it and held on, while Dick prevented the spar from being rolled over on the two men clinging to it, for their strength was almost too far gone to enable them to help themselves. —  The Rival Crusoes
  • Giovanni Bellini's greatest work, now at St Salvatore, is Christ at Emmaus, with Venetian senators and a Turkish dragoman introduced as spectators of the risen Lord Of another great work at Vicenza, painted in Gian Bellini's old age, when neither his skill nor his strength was abated, 'The Baptism of Christ,' Dean Alford writes thus Let us remain long and look earnestly, for there is indeed much to be seen. —  The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old English strengthu.

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  1. from Middle English strengthe, strencthe, strenkyth, also strenthe, streinthe, from Anglo-Saxon strengthu (= Old High German strengida), strength, from strang, strong: see strong. Cf. length, from long.
  2. from Middle English strengthen, strenthen; from strength, n.
 

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