STRESS, n.
1. Force urgency pressure importance that which bears with most weight as the stress of a legal question. Consider how much stress is laid on the exercise of charity in the New Testament.
This, on which the great stress of the business depends--
2. Force or violence as stress of weather.
3. Force violence strain.
Though the faculties of the mind are improved by exercise, yet they must not be put to a stress beyond their strength.
STRESS, To press to urge to distress to put to difficulties. Little used.
The King James Bible has stood its ground for nearly 400 years. However, during that time the English language has changed, and with it the meanings of some words it used. Here are more than 6,500 words whose definitions have changed since 1611.Wikipedia
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