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unhonor

unhonor is the alternative form of unhonour.

Meaning of unhonour

Noun

unhonour (uncountable)

  1. The lack or absence of honour; dishonour.
    • Quite foreign to the thought is the opinion of Hofmann, that as a man declares his will to make a woman his wife by a word or declaration, and so takes her from the unhonour of her maiden condition, so has Christ done to the church.1861, John Eadie, A Commentary on the Greek Text of the Epistle of Paul

Origin of unhonor

From un- + honor.

Questions about unhonor

What is unhonor the alternative form of?
Unhonor is the alternative form of unhonour.

Words near unhonor in the dictionary

  1. unhonestie
  2. unhonestly
  3. unhonesty
  4. unhoneyed
  5. unhonied
  6. unhonor
  7. unhonor'd
  8. unhonorable
  9. unhonorably
  10. unhonored
  11. unhonour

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unhonor (page history and authors); unhonour (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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