Meanings
nounfore-strength (uncountable)
- uncountableThat which leads to or engenders strength.
Somewhere within my blood Is the fore-strength of peace
1929, MacKnight Black, Machinery1 more example
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.
1911, Caroline Dale Parke Snedeker, The Coward of Thermopylæ
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