Both Uses
prowess
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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- Here Phoebus, whose imagination was endowed with but mediocre power of creation, began to find himself in a quandary as to a means of extricating himself for his prowess.†
Chpt 2.8.6
- The populace, fond of all prowess, sought him with their eyes, beneath the gloomy nave, regretting that he had so speedily disappeared from their acclamations.†
Chpt 2.8.6 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(prowess) superior ability
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)