go from strength to strength
To continue to get stronger, more and more successful.
The Internet continues to go from strength to strength as it matures, finding new ways to better itself.
strength
UK /stɹɛŋ(k)θ/ US [st̠͡ɹ̠ɛŋkθ]
noun 5verb 1
Definitions
noun
1
The quality or degree of being strong.
It requires great strength to lift heavy objects.
Our castle’s strength will laugh a siege to scorn.
2
The intensity of a force or power; potency.
He had the strength of ten men.
Study gives strength to the mind; conversation, grace: the first apt to give stiffness, the other suppleness: one gives substance and form to the statue, the other polishes it.
3
The strongest part of something; that on which confidence or reliance is based.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
[…] certainly there is not in the world a greater strength against temptations, then is deposited in an obedient understanding […].
4
A positive attribute.
to play to one's strengths
We all have our own strengths and weaknesses.
5
An armed force, a body of troops.
Thou princely leader of our English strength, Never so needful on the earth of France,
That done, dissever your united strengths, And part your mingled colours once again;
verb
1
To strengthen (all senses).
ſtrengthed with all myght / thꝛowe hys gloꝛious power / vnto all pacience / and longe ſufferynge with ioyfulnes
Then ſhalt thow perceave what it meaneth that the power of this wretched monſtre / muſt be ſtrengthed / by anothers power and not by his awne.
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