dishonour.

To be sure, the man may prefer starvation; he may have so strong a metaphysical faith that death is welcome in comparison with what he calls dishonour.

Born in Exile George Gissing 1880

Thus we see kings and councillors of the earth admired for facing death before what they are pleased to call dishonour.

Life and Habit Samuel Butler 1868

The common sense of mankind affixes to the epithet adopted by Doctor Cooper the idea of dishonour.

Memoirs of Aaron Burr Davis, Matthew L 1836

To like such things we should have to surrender our better intuitions and suffer a kind of dishonour.

The Life of Reason George Santayana 1907

Yes; it was an evil chance for him, the being born to such contention; there are some enemies so base that even to hold them captive is a kind of dishonour.

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859