| 单词 |
sinewless |
| 释义 |
ˈsinewless, a.
Also 6 sinewe-, 7 sin(n)ewlesse.
[f. sinew n. + -less.]
1. Destitute of sinews.
1552Huloet, Sinewelesse, or hauing no sinewes. 1767S. Paterson Another Trav. I. 245 That were to make headless trunks, and sinewless arms. 1798W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XXV. 515 The Farnesian Hercules, so muscular before, so sinewless behind. 1815Byron Hebrew Mel., Saul i, His foot, in bony whiteness, glitter'd there, Shrunken and sinewless.
2. Lacking vigour; feeble, weak, powerless.
1644[H. Parker] Jus Populi 44 Regiment in the first ages was rather too milde and sinewlesse than too violent and rigorous. 1656Artif. Handsom. 193 All that ever was said against these Helps of beauty, seems to many wise women..weak and sinnewlesse. 1829K. H. Digby Broadstone of Honour i. Godefridus 294 The arms which once slew the Nemæan lion may become sinewless. 1869J. Ker Serm. (1874) I. 63 A weak sinewless Christianity. 1872S. Mostyn Perplexity I. viii. 145 Look at those hands; they are white, thin, sinewless. |
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