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English
Etymology
From un- + shent.
Adjective
unshent (comparative more unshent, superlative most unshent)
- (obsolete) Not shent; not disgraced; blameless.
c. 1600, John Ayliffe, Satires:Ho! all ye females that would live unshent, / Fly from the reach of Cyned's regiment.
1904, George Henry Needler, “How the Margrave was Slain”, in The Niebelungenlied Translated in Rhymed English, Reprint edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2005:Then sprang upon each other / those knights on honor bent, / And each from wounds deep cutting / sought to keep him all unshent.
References
“unshent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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