Antonyms for powers
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : pou-erz |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈpaʊ ərz |
Definition of powers
Origin :- c.1300, "ability; ability to act or do; strength, vigor, might," especially in battle; "efficacy; control, mastery, lordship, dominion; legal power or authority; authorization; military force, an army," from Anglo-French pouair, Old French povoir, noun use of the infinitive, "to be able," earlier podir (9c.), from Vulgar Latin *potere, from Latin potis "powerful" (see potent).
- Whatever some hypocritical ministers of government may say about it, power is the greatest of all pleasures. It seems to me that only love can beat it, and love is a happy illness that can't be picked up as easily as a Ministry. [Stendhal "de l'Amour," 1822]
- Meaning "one who has power" is late 14c. Meaning "specific ability or capacity" is from early 15c. Meaning "a state or nation with regard to international authority or influence" [OED] is from 1726. Used for "a large number of" from 1660s. Meaning "energy available for work is from 1727. Sense of "electrical supply" is from 1896.
- Phrase the powers that be is from Rom. xiii:1. As a statement wishing good luck, more power to (someone) is recorded from 1842. A power play in ice hockey so called by 1940. Power failure is from 1911; power steering from 1921.
- noun ability, competence
- noun physical ability, capacity
- noun control, dominance
- May the powers that guide our destiny, preserve you from any real cause for shame.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- The jealousy of the European powers, too, protects the Turk.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- Not the Trinity should come first to powers so limited as mine—but God.
- Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King
- He is bringing all his powers to bear on them; and he has many and varied powers.
- Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
- Yet the letter which Aylward had brought him gave him powers which he was not slow to use.
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, etc.—Tit.
- Extract from : « An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism » by Joseph Stump
- For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
- Extract from : « An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism » by Joseph Stump
- The discovery which Ellinor had just made to me engrossed all my powers of attention.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- They have to contend with the powers of darkness and the corruptions of nature.
- Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. I » by Francis Augustus Cox
- It is leagued with the powers of darkness, in wresting man from his Maker.
- Extract from : « The Works of Whittier, Volume VII (of VII) » by John Greenleaf Whittier
Synonyms for powers
- applied force
- aptitude
- arm
- ascendancy
- authority
- authorization
- bent
- birthright
- brawn
- capability
- capacity
- clout
- command
- competency
- connection
- diadem
- direction
- domination
- dominion
- dynamism
- effectiveness
- efficacy
- endowment
- energy
- faculty
- force
- forcefulness
- function
- gift
- hegemony
- horsepower
- imperium
- influence
- inside track
- intensity
- jurisdiction
- law
- leadership
- license
- management
- mechanical energy
- might
- moxie
- muscle
- omnipotence
- paramountcy
- potency
- potential
- potentiality
- predominance
- prerogative
- prestige
- privilege
- puissance
- qualification
- regency
- right
- rule
- say-so
- sinew
- skill
- sovereignty
- steam
- strength
- strings
- superiority
- supremacy
- sway
- talent
- turn
- vigor
- vim
- virtue
- voltage
- warrant
- weight
- wire
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