warproof

adj, noun — 2 senses

warproof

adj

Etymology From war + proof.

1

Immune to being degraded or destroyed by war.

warproof

noun

Etymology From war + proof.

1

Obsolete Valour tried by war.

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

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