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unhonour'd

unhonour'd is the obsolete form of unhonored.

Meaning of unhonored

Adjective

unhonored (not comparable)

  1. Not honored.
    • Laboring slowly, unhonored and unpaid and bound toward an immaterial prize far more meaningful than “success” as New York parlance would have it, these writers have destiny for incentive — and perhaps the exemplars of bygone literary gods for inspiration.2009 May 3, “The Fictional Advance”, in New York Times

Forms of unhonour'd

comparativemore unhonour'd
superlativemost unhonour'd

Origin of unhonour'd

From un- + honour'd.

Questions about unhonour'd

What is unhonour'd the obsolete form of?
Unhonour'd is the obsolete form of unhonored.

Words near unhonour'd in the dictionary

  1. unhonor'd
  2. unhonorable
  3. unhonorably
  4. unhonored
  5. unhonour
  6. unhonour'd
  7. unhonourable
  8. unhonourably
  9. unhonoured
  10. unhood
  11. unhooded

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unhonour'd (page history and authors); unhonored (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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