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けんりょく
Meanings
Adjective (の)
Noun
1. (political) power; authority; influence
With power comes responsibility.
Alt. forms
権けん力りょく
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けんりょく
Pitch accent
け
んりょく
Used in: 2
Composed of
right (to do something); authority; power
strength; power; proficiency; ability
Used in vocabulary (17 in total)
powerful person; influential person
power struggle
power struggle
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Examples (21 in total)
The king was shorn of his power.
The king was deprived of his power.
With power comes responsibility.
Power and money are inseparable.
The king was stripped of his power.
The king abused his power.
One should not exercise power or authority.
He has absolute power.
Hitler assumed power in 1933.
He is full of ambition for power.
His ambition is to gain power over others.
In reality, all they are interested in is power.
Someone even more powerful is backing them.
While we hate force, we recognize the need for law and order.
This king is also the type who does not cling too much to power.
The angry people deprived the king of all his power.
The man used much money to gain power.
Power should be handed over gradually, in the natural course of time.
As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable.
She was the daughter of a certain influential noble and held considerable status and power.
He must have seen plenty of the ugly side of people hungry for power.