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noun

Thew n. (Chiefly used in the plural Thews)

Manner; custom; habit; form of behavior; qualities of mind; disposition; specifically, good qualities; virtues. (Obs.) "For her great light Of sapience, and for her thews clear." "Evil speeches destroy good thews." "To be upbrought in gentle thews and martial might."

Muscle or strength; nerve; brawn; sinew. "And I myself, who sat apart And watched them, waxed in every limb; I felt the thews of Anakim, The pules of a Titan's heart."

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Etymology of 'Thew'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Thew" Quotes from Famous Books

... his fellow men. He became a "lumber-jack," a preacher to the rough sons of the Wisconsin forests. He told me how he first won their respect by sharing their toil—he, a fragile slip of a man, and they giants in thew and muscle: how by tact and kindness he got a hearing for his Master; how he travelled scores of miles through the winter snows to nurse dying men, wrecked by wild excesses; how he had sat for hours together ...

— The Empire of Love • W. J. Dawson

... reign'd, (so chim'd, in earlier day, Loud to the twanging harp the Breton lay,) While Arthur reign'd, two kingdoms born to bless, Great Britain's king, and suzerain of the less; A lord of Leon, one of fair report Among the vassal barons of his court, Own'd for his son a youth more bravely thew'd Than aught both countries yet had seen of good. Dame Nature gave the mould; his sire combin'd Due culture, exercise of limbs and mind, Till the rare strippling, now no longer boy, Chang'd his fond parents' ...

— The Lay of Marie • Matilda Betham

... base or malignant in his composition; and that he was as capable of acts of extraordinary generosity and disinterestedness as of excesses of brutal fury or profligacy. Of the courage and strength of will proper to his race, he had his full share, with more than his share of their strength of thew and sinew; and his intellectual powers, both natural and acquired, were also of a high order. He was renowned in his own day not only as beyond all dispute the stoutest and most gallant of living heroes, but as likewise occupying a place in the foremost rank of those who excelled ...

— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 • Various

... spring, and the air returned to the chill of the darker months. The bald break in the forest looked more cheerless than a waste ground in a city, and those who stood about to fight for life became savage images that looked something less than human. Nick, larger than his brother, was a tower of thew and muscle. As he stood there, clad in a cotton shirt and trousers belted at the waist, he was the figure of a perfect man. His shaggy head was thrown back, but his handsome face was distorted by its expression of hate. Ralph was the smaller by inches, but his muscles were as fine-tempered steel. ...

— In the Brooding Wild • Ridgwell Cullum