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dishumour

dishumour verb: to deprive of humour or desire; to put out of humour.

Verb

dishumour (third-person singular simple present dishumours, present participle dishumouring, simple past and past participle dishumoured)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To deprive of humour or desire; to put out of humour.
    • O, how I do feed vpon this now, and fat my ſelf? here were a couple vnexpectedly diſhumor'd: […]1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act V, scene ii...

Noun

dishumour (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) ill humour; bad temper

Forms of dishumour

third-person singular presentdishumours
present participledishumouring
past participledishumoured
pastdishumoured
alternative formdishumor

Origin of dishumour

From dis- + humour.

Questions about dishumour

What does dishumour mean?
Dishumour means to deprive of humour or desire; to put out of humour.
What part of speech is dishumour?
Dishumour can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of dishumour?
The past tense of dishumour is dishumoured.

Words near dishumour in the dictionary

  1. dishtrays
  2. dishumor
  3. dishumored
  4. dishumoring
  5. dishumors
  6. dishumour
  7. dishumoured
  8. dishumouring
  9. dishumours
  10. dishware
  11. dishwares

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