Supremacy vs Strength - What's the difference?
supremacy | strength | Related terms |
The quality of being supreme.
Power over all others.
When used with a designation for a particular group, the assertion that the group in question is superior to or should rule over others.
The quality or degree of being strong.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* , chapter=5
, title= The intensity of a force or power; potency.
* 1699 , ,
The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based.
* Bible, (Psalms) xlvi. 1
* (Jeremy Taylor) (1613–1677)
A positive attribute.
(obsolete) A strong place; a stronghold.
(obsolete) To give strength to; to strengthen.
* 1395 , (John Wycliffe), Bible , Job IV:
Supremacy is a related term of strength.
As nouns the difference between supremacy and strength
is that supremacy is the quality of being supreme while strength is the quality or degree of being strong.As a verb strength is
(obsolete) to give strength to; to strengthen.supremacy
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Noun
(en-noun)strength
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Noun
(en noun)- Our castle's strength will laugh a siege to scorn.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength —all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
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- Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
- God is our refuge and strength .
- Certainly there is not a greater strength against temptation.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* fortitude * power * ability * capability * potency * expertiseAntonyms
* (The quality of being strong) weakness * (A positive attribute) weaknessDerived terms
* bond strength * compressive strength * crushing strength * dielectic strength * fatigue strength * field strength * full-strength * impact strength * industrial-strength * inner strength * ionic strength * party strength * pillar of strength * relative strength * shear strength * strengthen * strengthening * strengthful * strengthless * strengthy * superstrength * tensile strength * tower of strength * ultimate strength * understrength * wet strength * yield strengthVerb
(en verb)- Lo! thou hast tau?t ful many men, and thou hast strengthid hondis maad feynt.
- (Chaucer)