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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To impugn; dishonor.

Wiktionary

  1. v. obsolete, rare, transitive To disparage.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. obsolete To disparage.

Etymologies

  1. Latin dehonestatus, past participle of dehonestare ("to dishonour"). (Wiktionary)

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  • “They have some glimmerings of the deception; they apprehend a flaw somewhere; they would fain be honest, and yet they must marry notwithstanding; for honesty's sake, they are fain to dehonestate themselves a little.”

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863

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  1. disparage

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