exert
verb (used with object)
to put forth or into use, as power; exercise, as ability or influence; put into vigorous action.
unexerted
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a word derived from
exert.
Example Sentences
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Genius, unexerted, is like the poor moth that flutters around a candle till it scorches itself to death.
From McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
It was the stillness rather of untroubled health, of strength omnipotent but unexerted.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series by Horatio Robert Forbes Brown
When I brought you into this extensive empire, I left no means unexerted to heighten your respect not only for its amiable sovereign, but for all powers in amity with her.
From Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter
Her influence unexerted, the Genoese mariner had never worn the laurel that now graces his brow.
From The Young Maiden by A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey
Even had they constituted, which they did not, a code of laws, a code is an unexerted power without those who administer it.
From Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies
