Vigor
['vɪgɚ]
Definition
(n.) Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy.
(n.) Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action; as, a plant grows with vigor.
(n.) Strength; efficacy; potency.
(v. t.) To invigorate.
Checker: Marty
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Strength, force, might, power.[2]. Energy, efficacy.[3]. Health, haleness, soundness, robustness, bloom, elasticity, tone.[4]. Thriftiness, flourishing condition.[5]. Liveliness, raciness, piquancy.
Typist: Osborn
Examples
- I moved the table, like a Medium of the present day, by the vigor of my unseen hold upon it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Burnside was ordered to reconnoitre his front in force, and, if an opportunity presented, to attack with vigor. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- On the 28th the enemy struck our right flank, General Logan commanding, with great vigor. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Some people wish vigor, endurance, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This was made with vigor, and was directed principally against Emory's corps, which had sustained the principal loss in the first attack. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Barlow pushed forward with great vigor, under a heavy fire of both artillery and musketry, through thickets and swamps. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Work was therefore pushed with great vigor on the defences, to enable the minimum number of troops to hold the fort. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Says Lamartine of the writings of Palissy, they are real treasures of human wisdom, divine piety, and eminent genius, as well as of great simplicity, vigor, and copiousness of style. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Vigor, endurance, and mental alertness are bought by hygienic living; that is, by proper food, fresh air, exercise, cleanliness, and reasonable hours. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- While this was going on, the enemy charged Warren three separate times with vigor, but were repulsed each time with loss. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There are many men of equal bodily and mental vigor who have not achieved a tithe of his accomplishment. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And the attitudes which spring from getting used to and accepting half-understood and ill-digested material weaken vigor and efficiency of thought. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He, with a small force, was cut off from the remainder of the National army and was attacked with great vigor by many times his own number. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Fanny paused a moment, and then, with fresh vigor, said, My love I would ask them with all my heart, if it was in my power. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- This he did with great vigor, inflicting heavy losses on the National side, but suffering much heavier on his own. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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