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comparative more unshent · superlative most unshent
- obsoleteNot shent; not disgraced; blameless.
Ho! all ye females that would live unshent, / Fly from the reach of Cyned's regiment.
1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC1 more example
Then sprang upon each other / those knights on honor bent, / And each from wounds deep cutting / sought to keep him all unshent.
1904, George Henry Needler, “How the Margrave was Slain”, in The Niebelungenlied Translated in Rhymed English, Reprint edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2005
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