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present singular third person shends · participle present shending · participle past shent · past shent

1. obsoleteTo disgrace or put to shame.

   Do you hear how we are shent for keeping your greatness back?

   c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]

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   Her fawning love with foule disdainefull spight He would not shend

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

2. archaicTo blame.
3. archaicTo destroy; to spoil.

   Go see their fleet and arms, their manner view / of moulded metal, ready all to shend[.]

   1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 279

4. archaicTo overpower; to surpass.

   Not since I backed a horse have I been perssed so hard; peril of life, jeopardy of land and livelihood, and to sum up, all these losels in the wood to hunt me down. But I be not yet shent. Some of my lads will pick me their way home.

   1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Chapter 7, The Hooded Face”, in The Black Arrow

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   Since sware the Parcæ unto me, their friend, / they shall adore my name, my favour prize; / and, as their feats of armèd prowess shend / all feats of rival Rome, I lief devise / some mode of aidance in what things I may, / far as our force o'er man extendeth sway.

   1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 339