strengthener
Example Sentences
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For one thing, “very” is a fraud, masquerading as a strengthener when it merely wheedles and pleads.
From Washington Post ā Oct. 12, 2022
A doctor suggested ballet as a strengthener when she complained of pain in the arches of her feet, and the household mobilized to make sure she got to lessons.
From Los Angeles Times ā Sep. 17, 2021
That acted as a strengthener, while continuing to draw chlorides out of the material.”
From Washington Times ā Aug. 7, 2015
Melancholy is a great strengthener of faithfulness in love.
From Don Orsino by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
Affliction appears to be the guide to reflection; the teacher of humility; the parent of repentance; the nurse of faith; the strengthener of patience, and the promoter of charity.
From Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Louis Klopsch