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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Unsinewverb

    To deprive of strength.

    Nor are the nerves of his compacted strength,
    Stretch’d and dissolv’d into unsinew’d length. John Denham.

    Now toys and trifles from their Athens come,
    And dates and pepper have unsinew’d Rome. Dryden.

    The affected purity of the French has unsinew’d their heroick verse. The language of an epick poem is almost wholly figurative: yet are they so fearful of a metaphor, that no example of Virgil can encourage them to be bold with safety. Dryden.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Unsinewverb

    to deprive of sinews or of strength

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Unsinew

    un-sin′ū, v.t. to take the strength from.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of unsinew in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of unsinew in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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