Thew

n.1.Manner; custom; habit; form of behavior; qualities of mind; disposition; specifically, good qualities; virtues.
For her great light
Of sapience, and for her thews clear.
- Chaucer.
Evil speeches destroy good thews.
- Wyclif (1 Cor. xv. 33).
To be upbrought in gentle thews and martial might.
- Spenser.
2.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.
- Tennyson.

 

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