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noun

Dishonor n. (Written also dishonour)

Lack of honor; disgrace; ignominy; shame; reproach. "It was not meet for us to see the king's dishonor." "His honor rooted in dishonor stood."

(Law) The nonpayment or nonacceptance of commercial paper by the party on whom it is drawn.

Synonyms: Disgrace; ignominy; shame; censure; reproach; opprobrium.

verb

Dishonor v. t. (past & past part. dishonored; pres. part. dishonoring) (Written also dishonour)

To deprive of honor; to disgrace; to bring reproach or shame on; to treat with indignity, or as unworthy in the sight of others; to stain the character of; to lessen the reputation of; as, the duelist dishonors himself to maintain his honor. "Nothing... that may dishonor Our law, or stain my vow of Nazarite."

To violate the chastity of; to debauch.

To refuse or decline to accept or pay; said of a bill, check, note, or draft which is due or presented; as, to dishonor a bill exchange.

Synonyms: To disgrace; shame; debase; degrade; lower; humble; humiliate; debauch; pollute.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dishonour" Quotes from Famous Books

... make an end of me, for fear in one of your youthful frolicks, you should disclose what you saw in Priapus's chappel, and utter the counsels of the gods among the people. Low as your knees, I therefore lift my hands t'ye, that ye neither make sport of our night-worship, nor dishonour the mysteries of so many years, which, 'tis not every one, even ...

— The Satyricon • Petronius Arbiter

... him. The Ukraine will never more see the bravest of the children who have undertaken to defend her. Old Taras may tear the grey hair from his scalp-lock, and curse the day and hour in which such a son was born to dishonour him. ...

— Taras Bulba and Other Tales • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

... guns of mine,' says Dan, explainin' later the pheenomenon of him not shootin' none, 'which I wouldn't dishonour them guns by usin' 'em on varmints like this yere ...

— Wolfville Nights • Alfred Lewis

... wife, and are not her improvements, all his own?—Absolutely, as I may say, his own? And does not every excellence she can be adorned by, redound to her husband's honour because she is his, even more than to her own!—In like manner as no dishonour affects a man so much, as that which he ...

— Pamela (Vol. II.) • Samuel Richardson

... they imbibe with being: what are those thanks but the incense of their joy? The flowers send it up to heaven in fragrance; the air and the wave, in music. Shall the heart of man be the only part of His creation that shall dishonour His worship with lamentation and gloom? When the inspired writers call upon us to praise our Creator, do they not say to ...

— Devereux, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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