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a superior ability

Their defensive prowess helped them win the Super Bowl.

They soon began to boast of their respective superiority to each other in strength and prowess.
Aesop -- The Man and the Lion
His prowess from behind the three point line is unmatched.
Hers was the average woman's pride, but in the matter of man-conquering prowess she was not unduly conceited.
London, Jack -- The Valley of the Moon
Jem said Mr. Avery misfigured, Dill said he must drink a gallon a day, and the ensuing contest to determine relative distances and respective prowess only made me feel left out again, as I was untalented in this area.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

prowess = impressive ability

Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of.
Seneca
We have heard of your prowess.
Tolstoy, Leo -- War and Peace
Who by his prowess conquered all France.
Shakespeare, William -- King Henry VI, Part 3
Both men were on their guard and fenced with fine skill, being well matched in prowess.
McSpadden, J. Walker -- Robin Hood
The tribe had gathered about to look upon the proof of his wondrous prowess, and to listen to his words.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice -- Tarzan of the Apes
He seemed no more to be continually regarding the proportions of his personal prowess.
Crane, Stephen -- The Red Badge of Courage
The Amazon Penthesileia ... comes to aid the Trojans, and after showing great prowess, is killed by Achilles and buried by the Trojans.
Homer -- Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica
A person whose goodness consists rather in his guiltlessness of vice, than in his prowess in virtue.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
Or maybe it's just that word of my prowess with cream of tartar has spread.
Meg Cabot -- Queen of Babble
His prowess extends further than to setting off fireworks.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
The action was that of an Indian, impressive and stern, significant of an Indian's prowess.
Zane Grey -- The Rainbow Trail
She was dignified, if not haughty; I felt her conduct like a kind of touching athletic prowess.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
But a deer was far beyond his prowess as a hunter.
Elizabeth George Speare -- The Sign of the Beaver
Artus managed to get his own short sword free of the sheath, but he was no match for the Winter King's prowess.
James A. Owen -- Here, There be Dragons
This whole transaction gave us Americans the first suspicion that our exalted ideas of the prowess of British regulars had not been well founded.
Benjamin Franklin -- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

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