unbowing

Verb

unbow (third-person singular simple present unbows, present participle unbowing, simple past and past participle unbowed)

1. (transitive) To unbend (something).
   • Richard [I of England] was well ſtored with men, the bones; and quickly got money, the ſinews of warre; by a thouſand Princely skills gathering ſo much coin as if he meant not to return, becauſe looking back would unbowe his reſolution1639, Thomas Fuller, “Richard of England and Philip of France Set Forward to the Holy Land; the Danger of the Interveiws of Princes”, in The Historie of the Holy Warre, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […]...