unshent

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ shent.

Adjective

unshent (comparative more unshent, superlative most unshent)

  1. (obsolete) Not shent; not disgraced; blameless.
    • c. 1600, John Ayliffe, Satires:
      Ho! all ye females that would live unshent, / Fly from the reach of Cyned's regiment.
    • 1904, George Henry Needler, “How the Margrave was Slain”, in The Niebelungenlied Translated in Rhymed English‎, Reprint edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2005:
      Then sprang upon each other / those knights on honor bent, / And each from wounds deep cutting / sought to keep him all unshent.

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unshent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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