ppl. a. [See prec.] Rendered nerveless or weak; unmanned.
1602. Shaks., Ham., II. ii. 496. With the whiffe and winde of his fell Sword Th’ vnnerued Father fals.
1659. W. Chamberlayne, Pharonnida, III. i. 398. Whilst her brother stands Unnerved with grief.
1718. Rowe, trans. Lucan, 33. Then Sons forsook their Sires un-nerv’d and old.
1781. Cowper, Retirem., 677. A mind unnerv’d, or indispos’d to bear The weight of subjects worthiest of her care.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xx. IV. 429. Her recent efforts … had left her spent and unnerved.
1894. S. Fiske, Holiday Stories (1900), 83. The situation was becoming terribly strained … Tom had given way under it, and was completely unnerved.
