Crossword clues for prowess
prowess
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prowess \Prow"ess\, n. [OF. proece, proesce, F. prouesse. See
Prow, a.]
Distinguished bravery; valor; especially, military bravery
and skill; gallantry; intrepidity; fearlessness.
--Chaucer.
Sir P. Sidney.
He by his prowess conquered all France.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 13c., prouesse, from Old French proece "prowess, courage, brave deed" (Modern French prouesse), from prou, later variant of prud "brave, valiant," from Vulgar Latin *prodem (source also of Spanish proeza, Italian prodezza; see proud). Prow was in Middle English as a noun meaning "advantage, profit," also as a related adjective ("valiant, brave"), but it has become obsolete. "In 15-17th c. often a monosyllable" [OED].
Wiktionary
n. 1 skillfulness and manual ability; adroitness or dexterity. 2 Distinguished bravery or courage, especially in battle; heroism
WordNet
Usage examples of "prowess".
Like the Norse, the Afro-Phoenicians illustrate human possibility, in this case black possibility, or, more accurately, the prowess of a multiracial society.
Saturday, 18870618:1900 Four hours after they had begun to trickle through the beach gate, the women of Joy Hall, even the most reluctant Sarah, were still happily engaged in gossip, comparison of the males, claims of sexual prowess, reminiscences of Earth, wading in the surf, and general appreciation of the great open vistas.
There had been rumours back at the arcology about the prowess of people geneered for spaceflight, something to do with enhanced flexibility.
After another ten minutes of homage to the Golden Goddess, a bard of some little renown took the stand -- not to demonstrate his bardly prowess, for that was known to all, but to discourse on certain aspects of bardship and allied matters.
They went into the drawing-room in a body and found Captain Baster still talking to their mother, in the middle, indeed, of a long story illustrating his prowess in a game of polo, on two three-hundred-guinea and one three-hundred-and-fifty-guinea ponies.
As if to demonstrate her prowess as a battler, she freed her hands and beat at his chest.
Vietnam a hero, at least as much of a hero as anyone could be from that conflict, and it had been that combat prowess that had attracted Benison to him.
Not for the first time she wondered what lay behind his decision to hold himself aloof from Gerard, given that his heroism and his mathematical prowess, to say nothing of his mastery of horology, could--if revealed to Gerard--have brought him nothing but honour and praise.
They reshaped them, configuring the topology to enhance mathematical prowess, which took us onto a plateau beyond what the neural modifiers had been capable of doing.
And then the big car was rolling around the comer, its observers little knowing that Cranston was already transforming himself into The Shadow, that cloaked fighter whose prowess could outmatch a horde!
Almost four hundred years old, he was legendary among her people for his prowess and ability to teach a young pantheress her passion.
Spaceplanes were on their way out, and Kulu was using its technological prowess to devastating political effect, granting preferential licence production to the companies of allied star systems.
The inadequacies of the Quadripartite extend into innumerable areas, but their prowess in physical and metaphysical prolepsis is unparalleled.
Dorik Harbin ingested psychotropic drugs to increase his battle prowess.
Meanwhile the Knight began to rouze 655 The sparkles of his wonted prowess.