Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Endowed with moral qualities; behaved; mannered.
- Having thews, muscle, or strength.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Furnished with thews or muscles.
- adjective obsolete Accustomed; mannered.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having
thews ormuscles . - adjective
Accustomed oreducated . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
thew .
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Examples
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I stick with hard SF, but I'm not selling as many books as the ones about dragons and mighty-thewed heroes.
Grand Master Joe Haldeman tells all (or some, anyway) to Sci Fi Bookshelf 2010
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I stick with hard SF, but I'm not selling as many books as the ones about dragons and mighty-thewed heroes.
Archive 2010-02-01 2010
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Is Thor -- directed by Kenneth Branagh, starring Chris Hemsworth as the mighty-thewed thewed?
Dan Persons: Cinefantastique Spotlight: Thor Dan Persons 2011
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He was smooth and rosy-skinned, cherubic-faced, with a thatch of curly yellow hair, but his body was hugely thewed as a
CHAPTER VI 2010
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And Tom King, looking, saw Youth incarnate, deep-chested, heavy-thewed, with muscles that slipped and slid like live things under the white satin skin.
A PIECE OF STEAK 2010
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I stick with hard SF, but I'm not selling as many books as the ones about dragons and mighty-thewed heroes.
Archive 2010-02-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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Many times, in the jacket, has Adam Strang recrudesced, but always he springs into being full-statured, heavy-thewed, a full thirty years of age.
Chapter 15 2010
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Him she remembered -- Klakee-Nah, the head-man of the village, the friend of the missionaries and the traders, a large man thewed like a giant, with kindly eyes and masterful ways, and striding with a consciousness of crude royalty in his carriage.
The Wit of Porportuk 2010
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And Tom King, looking, saw Youth incarnate, deep-chested, heavy-thewed, with muscles that slipped and slid like live things under the white satin skin.
A PIECE OF STEAK 2010
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They were small breeds, lighter-boned and lighter-thewed, these Romans and Jews, and a blonde like me they had never gazed upon.
Chapter 17 2010
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