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- adjective
comparative form ofpowerful : morepowerful
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Examples
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Warren Ellis wrote me to be more powerfuller than you are.
Comic Book Cheers and Jeers for 1/17 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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Love is powerfuller than death, for it does me remove.
American Woods 1996
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And they have much powerfuller killing instincts than us.
Trader To The Stars Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1964
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The false heart she had put into the pride of her name was powerfuller than the heart in her bosom.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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The false heart she had put into the pride of her name was powerfuller than the heart in her bosom.
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete George Meredith 1868
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The false heart she had put into the pride of her name was powerfuller than the heart in her bosom.
Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 3 George Meredith 1868
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In their 'round hat plumed with tricolor feathers, girt with flowing tricolor taffeta; in close frock, tricolor sash, sword and jack-boots,' these men are powerfuller than King or Kaiser.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Those cunning men who formed to themselves the gorgeous plan of universal dominion were aware that they had a better chance of establishing it than brute ignorance or brute force could supply, and that soldiers and their paymasters were subject to other and powerfuller fears than the transitory ones of war and invasion.
Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, Clerk Walter Savage Landor 1819
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Thus, then, when a soul finds that it hath misled itself, being misguided by the wild fire of its lusts, and hath hardly escaped perishing and falling headlong in the pit, this disposes the soul to a willing resignation of itself to one wiser and powerfuller, the Spirit of God; and so he giveth the Spirit the string of his affections and judgment to lead him by, and he walketh willingly in that way to eternal life, since his heart was enlarged with so much knowledge and love.
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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'cause he was afeared of me, but 'cause he seed a chance of hittin' a powerfuller blow than in sending nobody but Sime Kenton under.
The Phantom of the River Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878
samoritan commented on the word powerfuller
From Thomas Hardy's poem "Hap"
If but some vengeful god would call to me
From up the sky, and laugh: “Thou suffering thing,
Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy,
That thy love’s loss is my hate’s profiting!�?
Then would I bear, and clench myself, and die,
Steeled by the sense of ire unmerited;
Half-eased, too, that a Powerfuller than I
Had willed and meted me the tears I shed.
But not so. How arrives it joy lies slain,
And why unblooms the best hope ever sown?
--Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain,
And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan….
These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown
Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.
May 17, 2007
seanahan commented on the word powerfuller
I'm not a big fan of this poem, and this word is ludicrous.
May 18, 2007
samoritan commented on the word powerfuller
No, the word is "powerfuller" ;)
May 23, 2007