fore-strength

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From fore- +‎ strength.

Noun[edit]

fore-strength (uncountable)

  1. That which leads to or engenders strength.
    • 1911, Caroline Dale Parke Snedeker, The Coward of Thermopylæ:
      Saying "Thermopylae" he thought "Leonidas." "Ay, of course; who knows not that?" The man was puzzled at Aristodemos's sudden wrath. "They gave their lives — those men — every one of them. They were the fore-strength of Salamis.
    • 1929, MacKnight Black, Machinery:
      Somewhere within my blood Is the fore-strength of peace
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