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English
Etymology
Latin dehonestatus, past participle of dehonestare (“to dishonour”).
Verb
dehonestate (third-person singular simple present dehonestates, present participle dehonestating, simple past and past participle dehonestated)
- (obsolete, rare, transitive) To disparage.
1825, Charles Lamb, “Unitarian Protests”, in London Magazine:dehonestate the intellects of married women
References
“dehonestate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin
Verb
dehonestāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of dehonestō