Citations:efficacy


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * And thus, said he, you must be justified by him, even by trusting to what he hath done by himself, in the days of his flesh, and suffered when he did hang on the tree. I asked him further, how that man's righteousness could be of that efficacy to justify another before God?


 * 1813 — Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
 * "And so ended his affection," said Elizabeth impatiently. "There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!"