strengthless
Americanadjective
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Origin of strengthless
Middle English word dating back to 1150–1200; see origin at strength, -less
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And round that early-laurelled head Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead, And find unwithered on its curls The garland briefer than a girl’s.
From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2016
Dr. Ernst Distelmeyer," joyless, strengthless Dr. Ley relinquished a vial of poison and told his U.S. captors: "I will always believe that Adolf Hitler was Germany's greatest man.
From Time Magazine Archive
Speechless and strengthless, a shadow thin, He roved the castle to find his kin.
From Songs from Books by Kipling, Rudyard
But by Zeus of the Ægis I implore thee, suffer me not to live a strengthless shadow among men, but pity me: for no man lives in strength that has couched with immortal Goddesses.” p.
From The Homeric Hymns A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Lang, Andrew
It is inconceivable; steel would be as friable as sand, and strengthless as smoke, in such strain.
From Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Warren, Henry White
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