unstrength
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English unstrengthe, from Old English *unstrengþu (“weakness”), equivalent to un- + strength.
Noun
[edit]unstrength (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Lack of strength; feebleness.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unstrength”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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