unstrengthened love

Definitions

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  • adjective Not strengthened.

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un- +‎ strengthened

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Examples

  • Unfounded and unstrengthened earthquakes here with concrete right through the area.

    CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2010 2010

  • This unstrengthened or unreinforced concrete is the problem when the wave begins to shake the building.

    CNN Transcript Jan 12, 2010 2010

  • It is pitiful, if you are the home-keeping mother of an impoverished family, to drop in your traces helpless at night, and awake unstrengthened in the early morning.

    The Promised Land Mary Antin 1915

  • It is pitiful, if you are the home-keeping mother of an impoverished family, to drop in your traces helpless at night, and awake unstrengthened in the early morning.

    The Promised Land 1912

  • It is pitiful, if you are the home-keeping mother of an impoverished family, to drop in your traces helpless at night, and awake unstrengthened in the early morning.

    The Promised Land Antin, Mary, 1881-1949 1912

  • These weak points left unstrengthened in the recitation are the lazy teacher's greatest reproach; the occasion of the unskillful teacher's greatest bungling; and the inexperienced teacher's greatest "danger points."

    The Recitation George Herbert Betts 1901

  • Richter thought that he was -- with his human heart unstrengthened -- taken by an angel among the universe of stars.

    The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays John Joly 1895

  • I have known her longer than you have, and have suffered more by her; but, in the face of all the shame and suffering that lie before her, I cannot feel resentment for what is a touch of insanity, unstrengthened and unpurified by any sort of education,

    Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle 1892

  • Gladly astounded were the retainers of Staneholme at their young laird's unannounced return, safe and sound, from the wars; but greater and more agreeable was their friendly surprise to find that his sick wife, who came back with him unstrengthened in body, was healed and hearty in spirit.

    Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes Sarah Tytler 1870

  • The imagination is then all alive, and the affections are in full vigor, while the judgment is unstrengthened by observation, and enthusiasm has never learned moderation of experience.

    The Mother's Book 1831

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