Middle English Dictionary Entry
dishonǒur n.
Entry Info
| Forms | dishonǒur n. Also disonour, des(h)onour. |
| Etymology | OF des(h)onor |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Disgrace, shame; indignity, dishonor; also, an indignity, a dishonoring act; (b) don ~, to subject (sb.) to indignity; bring disgrace or shame upon; (c) holden ~ of, to regard (sth.) as disgraceful.
Associated quotations
a
- c1330(?a1300) Arth.& M.(Auch)3141 : Þai..þouȝt wiþ gret dishonour For to misdo sir Arthour.
- c1380 Firumb.(1) (Ashm 33)563 : Þys day he falleþ in deshonour for is fol sendyng.
- a1400 Cursor (Trin-C R.3.8)23644 : To þese [the good] shul worshipe alle creatouris; Þese oþere [the wicked] of alle haue dishonouris.
- ?a1400(a1338) *Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Petyt 511)7b [946] : Þe noble lynage of kyng dardan..at myschefe is in dishonour.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)3863 : Ȝif he passeþ wiþ honoure, Oure is al þe dishonoure.
- c1436 Ipswich Domesday(2) (Add 25011)143 : Oftyn tyme gret slaundre is in the cuntre, to gret dishonour to the toun.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)429/2 : I woll no more have ado wyth you, for I have done the overmuche unto my dyshonoure and to thy worshyppe.
- (a1475) Fortescue Gov.E.(LdMisc 593)139 : Hit is the kyngis honour..to make is reaume riche; and it is disonour, whan he hath but a pouere reaume.
- a1500(1422) Yonge SSecr.(Rwl B.490)154/29 : Thre dyshonoures in the same day he moste Suffyre.
- a1500 Degrev.(Cmb Ff.1.6)859 : Hyr proferrys par amoure Boþ dukes and emperoure; Hyt were hyr disonowre For to taken þe.
- c1500(?a1475) Ass.Gods (Trin-C R.3.19)116 : Where I shuld haue be, he made me be absent To my gret dyshonour.
b
- c1330(?c1300) Amis (Auch)607 : & y dede mi lord þis deshonour, Þan were ich an iuel traitour.
- c1330 7 Sages(1) (Auch)17/349 : Who had þe don þis desonur?
- a1375(1335-1361) WPal.(KC 13)3952 : Ȝe misdon..to swiche a simpul sowdiour as icham for to knele; ȝe don a gret deshonour wiþ þat to ȝou-selue.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.ML.(Manly-Rickert)B.956 : The Romayn emperour..hath by lettres knowe..dishonour Doon to his doghter by a fals traytour.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pard.(Manly-Rickert)C.691 : To been auysed greet wisdom it were, Er that he dide a man a dishonour.
- a1400 Cursor (Göt Theol 107)4412 : Was neuer don to leudi mar Scham..Ioseph sohut on me in boure Forto do me dis-honoure.
- c1475 Guy(4) (Cai 107/176)7702 : Thow hast me do grete dysshonoure, When thou hast broken my hede.
c
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)4199 : Þat our successoures..ne holde Dyssehonour of our dedys, & dem vs for feble.