Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To dishonor; deprive of worship or dignity; disgrace.
- noun A perversion or loss of worship or honor; disgrace; discredit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To refuse to worship; to treat as unworthy.
- noun obsolete A deprivation of honor; a cause of disgrace; a discredit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
deprivation ofhonour or cause ofdisgrace .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Sir, said Palomides, I thank you of your great goodness, for ever of a man of worship a knight shall never have disworship; and so he mounted upon that horse, and the haut prince had another anon.
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Palomides, and yet great disworship have I none, for neither
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As for to kiss you, said Sir Launcelot, I may do that and lose no worship; and wit ye well an I understood there were any disworship for to kiss you I would not do it.
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Sir Gareth and Sir Dinadan, fie for shame, why did ye smite down so good a knight as he is, and namely when I had ado with him? now ye do yourself great shame, and him no disworship; for I held him reasonable hot, though ye had not holpen me.
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Truly, said the Green Knight, it were shame for me to say of him any disworship, for he hath proved himself a better knight than I am, yet have I met with many knights in my days, and never or this time have I found no knight his match.
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Sir, said Sir Ector, I am your brother, and ye are the man in the world that I love most; and if I understood that it were your disworship, ye may understand I would never counsel you thereto; but King Arthur and all his knights, and in especial Queen
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Nay, said Merlin, ye may not leave these adventures so lightly; for these adventures must be brought again or else it would be disworship to you and to your feast.
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And so they shall be led out of the gate of the lists evenly, so that the one go not before the other by no way and nothing, for sen he hath taken the quarrel in his hand, it should be dishonest that either of the parties should have more disworship than the other.
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Nay, said Merlin, ye may not leave these adventures so lightly; for these adventures must be brought again or else it would be disworship to you and to your feast.
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Alas, said Sir Beaumains, I were a shameful knight an I would do your father any disworship; and so he kissed her, and so she departed and came unto Sir Persant her father, and told him all how she had sped.
qms commented on the word disworship
Admire his entrepeneurship;
Applaud his keen connoisseurship!
He’s captured his prize
With well-crafted lies
And crowned himself king of disworship.
November 5, 2017