Meanings
unsinewed1
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of unsinew
unsinewed2
- not comparableobsoleteWeak.
O, for two special reasons; / Which may to you, perhaps, seem much unsinew'd, / But yet to me they are strong.
c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
Origin
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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