[f. FORMIDABLE a.: see -bility, -ITY.] The quality of being formidable.
1745. H. Walpole, Lett. H. Mann (1834), II. cxliii. 91. A Mackintosh has been taken, who reduces their formidability by being sent to raise two clans.
1754. H. P., Hiberniad, iii. 24. There would be an Air of Formidability in … his … Assertions.
1860. in Worcester (citing Q. Rev.)
