3 uses
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Definition
effectiveness (the ability to produce a desired result)
- I have confidence in the remedy I propose, and only ask you to permit me to assure you of its efficacy.Chapters 105-106 (41% in)
- Supposing this person, wearied at the inefficacy of the poison, should, as Monte Cristo intimated, have recourse to steel!Chapters 101-102 (4% in)
- Philosophers may well say, and practical men will always support the opinion, that money mitigates many trials; and if you admit the efficacy of this sovereign balm, you ought to be very easily consoled—you, the king of finance, the focus of immeasurable power.Chapters 103-104 (67% in)
There are no more uses of "efficacy" in The Count of Monte Cristo.
Typical Usage
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