pow'r

English

Noun

pow'r (countable and uncountable, plural pow'rs)

1. (archaic) Contraction of power.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 126”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy pow’r
     Dost hold time’s fickle glass his sickle hour

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• prow, wrop