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STRESS, n.

1. Force urgency pressure importance that which bears with most weight as the stress of a legal question. Consider how much stress is laid on the exercise of charity in the New Testament.

This, on which the great stress of the business depends--

2. Force or violence as stress of weather.
3. Force violence strain.

Though the faculties of the mind are improved by exercise, yet they must not be put to a stress beyond their strength.

STRESS, To press to urge to distress to put to difficulties. Little used.

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Entry for 'Stress'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​s/stress.html.
 
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