Efficacy Synonyms and Antonyms

Efficacy Sentence Examples

• He was a firm believer in the efficacy of culture.

• When its efficacy was not eternal, its effect was considered to endure for twenty years.

• Thus he allowed the necessity of good works to salvation, but not in the old sense; proposed to allow the seven sacraments, but only as rites which had no inherent efficacy to salvation, and so on.

• Suarez endeavoured to reconcile this view with the more orthodox doctrines of the efficacy of grace and special election, maintaining that, though all share in an absolutely sufficient grace, there is granted to the elect a grace which is so adapted to their peculiar dispositions and circumstances that they infallibly, though at the same time quite freely, yield themselves to its influence.

• Many topical applications are of great efficacy.