Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make unlike steel; disarm; soften.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To disarm; to soften.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
disarm ; tosoften .
Etymologies
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un- + steel
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Examples
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Why then should this enervating pity unsteel my foolish heart?
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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Why then should this enervating pity unsteel my foolish heart?
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 Samuel Richardson 1725
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