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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of dishonour.

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Examples

  • But I, from regard to my former husband, am throwing myself down in suppliant wise before this tomb of Proteus, praying him to guard my husband's honour, that, though through Hellas I bear a name dishonoured, at least my body here may not incur disgrace.

    Helen 2008

  • But I, from regard to my former husband, am throwing myself down in suppliant wise before this tomb of Proteus, praying him to guard my husband's honour, that, though through Hellas I bear a name dishonoured, at least my body here may not incur disgrace.

    Helen 2008

  • “May my arms be reversed, and my name dishonoured,” said

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • “So that you would have me shown up as a coward, sir, and our name dishonoured for the sake of Miss Swartz’s money, ” George interposed.

    XXI. A Quarrel about an Heiress 1917

  • Meantime, the young man's life is blighted, his name dishonoured, his family plunged into unspeakable grief.

    Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail Ralph Connor 1898

  • ` ` May my arms be reversed, and my name dishonoured, '' said Brian de Bois-Guilbert, ` ` if thou shalt have reason to complain of me!

    Ivanhoe 1892

  • "So that you would have me shown up as a coward, sir, and our name dishonoured for the sake of Miss Swartz's money," George interposed.

    Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • "May my arms be reversed, and my name dishonoured," said Brian de

    Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1801

  • He has no childlike heart, no love to God, who can hear his name dishonoured and be silent.

    The Lord's Prayer 1692

  • “So that you would have me shown up as a coward, sir, and our name dishonoured for the sake of Miss Swartz’s money,” George interposed.

    Vanity Fair 2006

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