unsinewed
English
Etymology 1
Verb
unsinewed
- simple past and past participle of unsinew
Etymology 2
Adjective
unsinewed (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Weak.
- 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):
- O, for two special reasons; / Which may to you, perhaps, seem much unsinew'd, / But yet to me they are strong.