Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not shent; not spoiled; not disgraced; unblamed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Not shent; not disgraced; blameless.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete Not
shent ; notdisgraced ;blameless .
Etymologies
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From un- + shent
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Examples
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Una Unica, charmers, who, under the branches of the elms, in shoes as yet unshent by stoni-ness, wend, went, will wend a way of honey myrrh and rambler roses mistmusk while still the maybe mantles the meiblume or ever her
Finnegans Wake 2006
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And each from wounds deep cutting/sought to keep him all unshent.
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914
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"Thy love of the marvellous will sooner or later thrust thee into some ridiculous or perilous scrape, from which not all thy boasted prowess can deliver thee unshent."
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) John Roby 1821
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