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unshent

unshent adjective: not shent; not disgraced; blameless.

Adjective

unshent (comparative more unshent, superlative most unshent)

  1. (obsolete) Not shent; not disgraced; blameless.
    • Ho! all ye females that would live unshent, / Fly from the reach of Cyned's regiment.1597, [Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in Virgidemiarum, Sixe Bookes. First Three Bookes, of Tooth-lesse Satyrs. […], London: […] Thomas Creede, for Robert Dexter, →OCLC
    • Then sprang upon each other / those knights on honor bent, / And each from wounds deep cutting / sought to keep him all unshent.1904, George Henry Needler, “How the Margrave was Slain”, in The Niebelungenlied Translated in Rhymed English, Reprint edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2005

Forms of unshent

comparativemore unshent
superlativemost unshent

Origin of unshent

From un- + shent.

Questions about unshent

What does unshent mean?
Unshent means not shent; not disgraced; blameless.
What part of speech is unshent?
Unshent is an adjective.

Words near unshent in the dictionary

  1. unsheltering
  2. unshelve
  3. unshelved
  4. unshelves
  5. unshelving
  6. unshent
  7. unshepherded
  8. unshepherdlike
  9. unshepherdly
  10. unshewn
  11. unshield

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