unshent

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adjective

Not shent; not disgraced; blameless.

Scrabble 10

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adjectiveunshent (comparative more unshent, superlative most unshent)

comparative more unshent · superlative most unshent

  1. 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, →OCLC
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    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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