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- noun Plural form of
powre .
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Examples
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In whose rich soule all sovereigne powres did sute,
More Pages from a Journal Mark Rutherford 1872
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Crowne, kisses it, and powres poyson in the Kings eares, and
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* My sinfull earth these rebbell powres that thee array,
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So weake my powres, so sore my wounds appeare, that wonder is how I should liue a iot, seeing my hart through launched euery where with thousand arrowes, which your eies haue shot:
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But this continuall cruell ciuill warre, the which my selfe against my selfe doe make: whilest my weak powres of passions warreid arre. no skill can stint nor reason can aslake.
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_Enter in Dumbe Shew, the King and the Queene, he sits downe in an Arbor, she leaues him: Then enters Luci - anus with poyson in a Viall, and powres it in his eares, and goes away: Then the Queene commmeth and findes him dead: and goes away with the other.
The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke The First ('Bad') Quarto William Shakespeare 1590
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6 His chaunged powres at first them selues not felt,
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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6 Therefore, deare Sir, your mightie powres assay.
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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590: For powres in Scotland: which for diuers reasons
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626: Where you, and Dowglas, and our powres at once,
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