Definitions
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- n. The characteristic or quality of being forceful
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. physical energy or intensity.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The character of being forceful.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. physical energy or intensity
Etymologies
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Examples
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Vindication, according to Thomas Aquinas the translation of vindicatio as 'vengeance' is not particularly good, but it does a little better than 'vindication' at indicating the forcefulness the Latin word conveys, is an important virtue associated with justice.
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"There is a passion, there is a vigor, there is a forcefulness, which is more thrilling," he says of an all-male Glee Club.
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The people were spoiled by the ramapant abuse of power under Bush and expected the same kind of forcefulness from Obama.
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I asked my partner to test this move's "forcefulness," by holding my wrists the same way; I was unable to break his grip, though he's not much larger than I am, and it hurt to struggle.
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I mean she worked at a law firm for a # of years, its hard to shake that "forcefulness" off.
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He didn't have the kind of forcefulness I had expected from a frontrunner who would, as Steve just said, should have been better prepared for some of those questions.
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Then he suddenly wheeled on her, and for the first time some kind of forcefulness appeared in his manner.
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For my vote though, I'd prefer that 'forcefulness' is directed at having old guard 'status quo centrists' in CONgress take a 'step back' and allow some REAL change, or expect progressive Independents and liberal Democrats to continue staying home.
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Newly developed muscular rubber arm which enhances her forcefulness
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"Even an implausible love triangle and a cast of two-dimensional characters can't dim the forcefulness of Bova's message: the singular significance of science in modern-day society."
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