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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... demon-dog with all his strength. Indeed, it was necessary to exert every thew and sinew if the animal were to be prevented from tearing him to pieces. Its howls were sufficient to strike terror to the stoutest heart. "Iou! Iou!" it ...

— Legends & Romances of Brittany • Lewis Spence

... established. He had the unspeakable advantage of being that which, though not in this sense, only his own favourite word of contempt describes, respectable; and, for another thing, of being ruggedly sincere. Carlylism is the male of Byronism. It is Byronism with thew and sinew, bass pipe and shaggy bosom. There is the same grievous complaint against the time and its men and its spirit, something even of the same contemptuous despair, the same sense of the puniness of ...

— Critical Miscellanies, Vol. I - Essay 2: Carlyle • John Morley