fore-strength

English

Etymology

From fore- ‎ strength.

Noun

fore-strength (uncountable)

1. That which leads to or engenders strength.
   • 1911, Caroline Dale Parke Snedeker, The Coward of Thermopylæ:

     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.

   • 1929, MacKnight Black, Machinery:

     Somewhere within my blood Is the fore-strength of peace