warproof

English

Alternative forms

war-proof

Etymology

From war +‎ proof.

Adjective

warproof (comparative more warproof, superlative most warproof)

1. Immune to being degraded or destroyed by war.

Noun

warproof (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Valour tried by war.
   • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

     On, on, you noblest English, / Whose blood is fet from fathers of warproof.

References

• “warproof”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.