Definition of Effectual

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Definition of Effectual
	Effectual Producing, or having adequate power or force to produce, an intended effect; adequate; efficient; operative; decisive. Related Definitions: Adequate, An, Decisive, Effect, Efficient, Force, Having, Intended, Operative, Or, Power, Produce, Producing, To

Effectual Quotations

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.
John Adams

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

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

The appeal to the white man's pocket has ever been more effectual than all the appeals ever made to his conscience.
Ida B. Wells

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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