unshent

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ shent.

Adjective

unshent (comparative more unshent, superlative most unshent)

  1. (obsolete) Not shent; not disgraced; blameless.
    • 1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC:
      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[1], 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

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

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