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Webster 1913 Edition


Unshent

Un-shent

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Adj.
Not shent; not disgraced; blameless.
[Obs.]
Bp. Hall.

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unshent

unshent

English

Adjective

unshent (comparative more unshent, superlative most unshent)

  1. (obsolete) Not shent; not disgraced; blameless.
    • Bishop Joseph Hall
      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.

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