unenervated en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + enervated.
Meanings
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Not enervated; robust; vigorous.
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.
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more unenervated | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most unenervated | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |