Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having strength; strong.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Having strength; strong.

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  • adjective strong, physically strong.

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Examples

  • His stories that run longer than the magic 7,500 generally -- but certainly not always -- could have benefitted from self-editing, the kind of drastic cutting recommended by the editor of Black Cat who in 1898 spoke of London's "A Thousand Deaths" being "more lengthy than strengthy."

    “I turn out each morning a thousand words of fiction.” 2008

  • It's only vertical and the holds are really good, but the route is freaking barren and all the moves are really big, and they all involve lots of reaching way off center, so I keep having to hold onto a bucket at chest level and smear my way up to it so I can reach past and grab the next hold, and it's, well -- really strengthy and techniquey and, well, hard.

    It's like Goldilocks became a serial killer. matociquala 2008

  • After that, I went and did a 5.6 I've done before (Let's be honest, it's a 5.7 rated down: anything with four bitchy slopers in a row is not a 5.6) and a 5.5 that's strengthy but not difficult.

    smile your little smile. take some tea with me awhile. matociquala 2008

  • I've done that one before, but it's a strengthy pushy move to get around the edge of the roof, and I just didn't have enough left.

    you got a plot to write every night. did they never tell you that? johnjosephadams 2008

  • Your courage and strengthy is demonstrated by the way you face such events - your generosity and your ability as a writer is shown by the way you tell others about them through your blog.

    Seizures and Memories: Elizabeth Elizabeth McClung 2008

  • I hardly pay any attention to them over here, at least not in a pretty-fying way, but it's like they just decided to take it upon themselves to get all lengthy and strengthy and stuff.

    bluemeany Diary Entry bluemeany 2005

  • I especially loved her snark on the Bush Campaign in the last election, saying that Bush's only plank was "the strengthiness of strengthy strength."

    Archive 2005-09-01 Douglas Hoffman 2005

  • I especially loved her snark on the Bush Campaign in the last election, saying that Bush's only plank was "the strengthiness of strengthy strength."

    A Birthday Wish List: Part 3 Douglas Hoffman 2005

  • He said and then lifted he in his rude great brawny strengthy hands the medher of dark strong foamy ale and, uttering his tribal slogan LAMH DEARG ABU, he drank to the undoing of his foes, a race of mighty valorous heroes, rulers of the waves, who sit on thrones of alabaster silent as the deathless gods. —

    Ulysses 2003

  • Then, with a strengthy fling of his arm, he hurled the precious bag of registered mail over the rim of the precipice, far down into the canyon, two hundred feet below.

    The Shagganappi 1913

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