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unweakened

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Etymology

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From un- +‎ weakened.

Adjective

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unweakened (comparative more unweakened, superlative most unweakened)

  1. Not weakened.
    • 1846 October 1 – 1848 April 1, Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son, London: Bradbury and Evans, [], published 1848, →OCLC:
      The same intolerable awe and dread that had come upon him in the night, returned unweakened in the day.
    • 1851, Thomas Carlyle, The Life of John Sterling[1]:
      A refined female nature; something tremulous in it, timid, and with a certain rural freshness still unweakened by long converse with the world.
    • 1912, Elinor Glyn, Halcyone[2]:
      That nothing but good could happen she always knew, because since the very beginning God—the same personal kindly force that she had always worshiped, unaltered by her deep learning, unweakened by any theological dissertations—was there manifesting the whole year round His wonderful love for the world.