dishonor

plural dishonors · alternative UK dishonour

1. countableuncountableAmerican standard spelling of dishonour.

   Indeed, those old insurgents, of 1868, are gradually being canonized with crimson death-names, because they neither knew dishonor, no, nor suffered it.

   1906, John Luther Long, The Way of the Gods, page 25

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   This prince bare alwaies in the field a greene shield, whereof he tooke his surname, and of him some forraine authors affirme, that he made an attempt to bring the whole realme of France vnder his subiection, which he performed, because his father susteined some dishonor and losse in his last voiage into that countrie.

   1587, Raphael Holinshed, Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (2 of 8)

present singular third person dishonors · participle present dishonoring · participle past dishonored · past dishonored · alternative UK dishonour

1. American standard spelling of dishonour.

   The three lured him to their home to kill him for dishonoring their family by filing a paternity suit in family court.

   1998 January 26, “Defense Says Blood Feud, Not Murder, Was Involved”, in The New York Times

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   It was while he was performing the duties of the store that he acquired the soubriquet "Honest Abe"--a characterization that he never dishonored, and an abbreviation that he never outgrew.

   1866, Josiah Gilbert Holland, The Life of Abraham Lincoln

   The DNC organized the petition drive when it became clear this week that the network was prepared to ignore criticism of its decision to air a right-wing, factually inaccurate mocudrama that dishonors the memory of 9/11 victims in order to serve a cheap, callous political agenda two months before the election.

   2006, Bruce R. Lindsey, Douglas J. Band, Comments About ABC Entertainment's 9/11 Film, ABC News, page 1