pow'r

pow'r (countable and uncountable, plural pow'rs)

1. (archaic) Contraction of power.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 126”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy pow’r
     Dost hold time’s fickle glass his sickle hour

   • 1779, John Newton, “Prayer anſwered by croſſes”, in Olney hymns, in three books, London: W. Oliver, page 353:

     And by his love’s conſtraining pow’r,
     Subdue my ſins, and give me reſt.

• prow, wrop