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单词 to shorten the arm or hand of
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to shorten the arm or hand of
e. figurative. In Biblical phrase, to shorten the arm or hand of: to limit the power of.
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society > authority > lack of power > deprive of power [verb (transitive)] > reduce the power of
weaken1530
to shorten the arm or hand of1535
weaken1568
emasculate1608
to pare the claws of1884
defang1919
declaw1940
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Num. xi. E The Lorde sayde vnto Moses: Is the Lordes hande shortened then?
1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. N4v Doe they thinke that his arme is shortened, or his power weakened?
1645 R. Harwood Loyall Subiects Retiring-roome 28 Why should we think his hand will be shortned towards any of us?
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (Rev. xx. 3) God will shorten your hand of cruelty.
1833 H. F. Lyte Poems 157 Thine arm can never shortened be.
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