unsinewed

English

Etymology 1

Verb

unsinewed

1. simple past and past participle of unsinew

Etymology 2

Adjective

unsinewed (not comparable)

1. (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.