Effectual
Producing, or having adequate power or force to produce, an intended effect; adequate; efficient; operative; decisive.
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Effectual Quotations
The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
Adam Smith
The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
John Adams
He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter.
Isaac Barrow
Persuasion is often more effectual than force.
Aesop
Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation.
William Ames
Of all the means I know to lead men, the most effectual is a concealed mystery.
Adam Weishaupt
Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
Samuel Richardson
There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.
Thomas W. Higginson
The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which has so often ruined individuals, states and empires; and which has now brought almost universal bankruptcy upon us.
Josiah Warren
Effectual Translations
effectual in Dutch is doeltreffend, effectief, afdoend
effectual in German is wirksam
effectual in Spanish is eficaz
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