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poor power en · NOUN

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  1. (idiomatic, uncountable) Limited ability.
    • Heavy as was her burden, not one feather's weight of it should he carry, if by any means in her poor power she could hold it from his back. 1890, H. Rider Haggard, chapter 26, in Beatrice:
    • "The spirit of the Stern Fund will continue," he said. "It is beyond the poor power of lawyers to dissolve it." 1986 May 19, “Fund Finishes Half a Century of Philanthropy with a Party”, in New York Times, retrieved 07 Mar 2014:
    • The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. 1863 November 19, Abraham Lincoln, Dedicatory Remarks (Gettysburg Address)^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address_(Bliss_copy)), near Soldiers' National Cemetery, →LCCN, Bliss copy, page 2:
    • Gibbie held her fast, and with all the ways in his poor power sought to comfort her. 1879, George MacDonald, chapter 52, in Sir Gibbie: