Effectual

Word EFFECTUAL
Character 9
Hyphenation ef fec tu al
Pronunciations /iˈfɛktʃuəl/

Definitions and meanings of "Effectual"

What do we mean by effectual?

Producing or sufficient to produce a desired effect. synonym: effective. adjective

Producing an effect, or the effect desired or intended; also, loosely, having adequate power or force to produce the effect: as, the means employed were effectual.

True; veracious.

Producing, or having adequate power or force to produce, an intended effect; adequate; efficient; operative; decisive. adjective

A doctrine concerning the work of the Holy Spirit in producing conviction of sin and acceptance of salvation by Christ, -- one of the five points of Calvinism. See Calvinism. adjective

Producing the intended result; entirely adequate. adjective

Producing or capable of producing an intended result or having a striking effect adjective

Having legal efficacy or force adjective

Producing the intended result; entirely adequate.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Effectual

The word "effectual" in example sentences

Based on interviews and case studies with successful U.S. entrepreneurs and executives at large corporations, Sarasvathy found that master entrepreneurs rely on what she calls effectual reasoning. ❋ By FREAKONOMICS (2011)

God that he would make the word effectual to the salvation of the soul; still being grieved lest the enemy should take the word away from the conscience, and so it should become unfruitful: wherefore I have labored so to speak the word, as that thereby, if it were possible, the sin and person guilty might be particularized by it. ❋ Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin (N/A)

That God would open to us a door of utterance, that is, either afford opportunity to preach the gospel (so he says, a great door and effectual is opened to me, 1 Cor.xvi. 9), or else give me ability and courage, and enable me with freedom and faithfulness; so ❋ Unknown (1721)

The power of corruption being broken in effectual calling, and the guilt of sin removed in justification, all that which hinders is taken out of the way, and nothing can come between that soul and glory. ❋ Unknown (1721)

If we would have the word effectual and saving, we must mind and observe every passage of Scripture. ❋ Unknown (1692)

When I have been in preaching, I thank God my heart hath often all the time of this and the other exercise, with great earnestness cried to God that He would make the word effectual to the salvation of the soul; still being grieved lest the enemy should take the word away from the conscience, and so it should become unfruitful: wherefore I should labour to speak the word, as that thereby, if it were possible, the sin and person guilty might be particularized by it. ❋ Bunyan, John, 1628-1688 (1666)

9 For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries. ❋ Unknown (1721)

In the declaration of the state of corrupted nature after the fall, and before the reparation of it by the grace of Jesus Christ, -- that is, the effectual operation of the Holy Spirit, -- the Scripture principally insists on three things: [90] -- 1. ❋ 1616-1683 (1967)

Even granting that the administration of these measures might be made effective and effectual, which is more than doubtful, we see that they are based upon a complete ignorance or disregard of the most important fact in the situation -- that of indiscriminate and irresponsible fecundity. ❋ Margaret Sanger (1924)

Such people may be called the effectual demanders, and their demand the effectual demand; since it may be sufficient to effectuate the bringing of the commodity to market. ❋ Unknown (1909)

In those instances where "faith" is used in a subjective sense for personal belief, it is never described as the effectual cause of salvation, but as the condition of personal assurance of salvation. ❋ William Rounseville Alger (1863)

From whence it follows, that the other way for the government to dispossess and cast out these public spirits is certainly the wisest and most effectual, which is, to give them nothing, but to defy their rage, and to despise their pretences, and to answer them, as a man in place and power would answer the craving and clamour of a restless beggar, with authority and correction. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)

Such people may be called the effectual demanders, and their demand the effectual demand; since it maybe sufficient to effectuate the bringing of the commodity to market. ❋ Adam Smith (1756)

Davis government to the Declaration of Paris of 1856, which had adopted as articles of maritime law that privateering be abolished; that the neutral flag covers enemy's goods, with the exception of contraband of war; that neutral goods, with the exception of contraband of war, are not liable to capture under the enemy's flag; that a blockade, in order to be binding, must be effectual, that is, must be maintained by a force sufficient to prevent access to the coast of the enemy. ❋ Pleasant A. Stovall (1896)

Indeed, the particular national tie that will bind the affections -- that is to say the effectual patriotic attachment -- of any given individual may turn out on closer scrutiny to be neither that of domicile or of formal legal allegiance, nor that of putative origin or pedigree, but only a reflex of certain national animosities; which may also turn out on examination to rest on putative grounds -- as illustrated by a subsidiary class of hyphenate American citizens whose affections have come to be bound up in the national fortunes of one foreign Power for the simple, but sufficient, reason that, on conventional grounds, they bear malice against another equally foreign Power. ❋ Thorstein Veblen (1893)

From a strictly professional point of view we would be sorry if Old Turps abandoned his 'effectual' blockade. ❋ Edward S. [Illustrator] Hodgson (1917)

Perhaps "effectual" is too strong a term; for I feel more indebted to Dr ❋ Unknown (1865)

Obama is FAR too concerned with being liked by all and admired by everybody to be ANY kind of effectual leader. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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