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- adjective Not
enervated ;robust ;vigorous .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Nantucket captains will send a son of such tender age away from them, for a protracted three or four years 'voyage in some other ship than their own; so that their first knowledge of a whaleman's career shall be unenervated by any chance display of a father's natural but untimely partiality, or undue apprehensiveness and concern.
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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Nor does it unfrequently occur, that Nantucket captains will send a son of such tender age away from them, for a protracted three or four years 'voyage in some other ship than their own; so that their first knowledge of a whaleman's career shall be unenervated by any chance display of a father's natural but untimely partiality, or undue apprehensiveness and concern.
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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Nor does it unfrequently occur, that Nantucket captains will send a son of such tender age away from them, for a protracted three or four years 'voyage in some other ship than their own; so that their first knowledge of a whaleman's career shall be unenervated by any chance display of a father's natural but untimely partiality, or undue apprehensiveness and concern.
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