unsteeled

English

Etymology 1

unsteel + -ed

Verb

unsteeled

  1. simple past and past participle of unsteel

Etymology 2

un- + steeled

Adjective

unsteeled (not comparable)

  1. Not having been steeled.
    • 1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter 5, in Zuleika Dobson, London: Heinemann, published 1922, page 60:
      Whenever this portent occurs, my steward telegraphs to me, that I, as head of the family, be not unsteeled against the shock of a bereavement []

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