Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The magnitude of a force.
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Examples
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It seems these people have force-power feeds that operate through space, by which an entire solar system can tie in for power, and they fed these stations in that way.
Invaders from the Infinite John Wood Campbell 1940
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The new moral power wants a force-power to precede; something which meets the selfishness of sin in its own plane, making the appeal, at first, to interest or precautionary prudence, by intimidations and appeals to fear.
The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation. 1802-1876 1871
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And, secondly, that the force-power of nature was originally set, to work enforcement for the law of duty, just because and by means of a grace-power, supernaturally working with it and complementary to it.
The Vicarious Sacrifice, Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation. 1802-1876 1871
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The fiercer and darker passions of human nature are depicted by her with terrible force-power.
Literary and Social Essays George William Curtis 1858
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