"formidability" meaning in All languages combined

See formidability on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: formidabilities [plural]
Etymology: From formidable + -ity. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|formidable|ity}} formidable + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} formidability (usually uncountable, plural formidabilities)
  1. The state of being formidable. Tags: uncountable, usually

Inflected forms

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          "text": "A Mackintosh has been taken, who reduces their formidability, by being sent to raise two clans, and with orders, if they would not rise, at least to give out they had risen, for that three clans would leave the Pretender, unless joined by those two.",
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