Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

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CLASS I SECTION VIII. 2. CONNECTION BETWEEN CAUSE AND EFFECT


157. Power -- N. power; potency, potentiality; jiva † ; puissance, might, force, energy &c 171; dint; right hand, right arm; ascendency † , sway, control; prepotency, prepollence † ; almightiness, omnipotence; authority &c 737; strength &c 159.

158. Impotence -- N. impotence; inability, disability; disablement, impuissance, imbecility; incapacity, incapability; inaptitude, ineptitude, incompetence, unproductivity † ; indocility † ; invalidity, disqualification; inefficiency, wastefulness.

159. [Degree of power.] Strength -- N. strength; power &c 157; energy &c 171; vigor, force; main force, physical force, brute force; spring, elasticity, tone, tension, tonicity.

160. Weakness -- N. weakness &c adj.; debility, atony † , relaxation, languor, enervation; impotence &c 158; infirmity; effeminacy, feminality † ; fragility, flaccidity; inactivity &c 683.