unshaked
English
Etymology
un- + shaked
Adjective
unshaked (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Unshaken.
- 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene i]:
- […] The heavens hold firm
The walls of thy dear honour, keep unshaked
That temple, thy fair mind, that thou mayst stand,
To enjoy thy banish’d lord and this great land!
- 1620, John Donne, Fifty Sermons, Volume 2, London: M.F., J. Marriot and R. Royston, 1649, Sermon 30, “Preached to the Countesse of Bedford […] , January 7, 1620,” p. 264,
- […] he hath digested the worst, he hath considered Death it selfe, and therefore his resolution stands unshak’d […] Though he dy for it, yet he will trust in God.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for unshaked in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- skean dhu, skean-dhu