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Dishonor   /dɪsˈɑnər/   Listen
noun
Dishonor  n.  (Written also dishonour)  
1.
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."
2.
(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)  
1.
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."
2.
To violate the chastity of; to debauch.
3.
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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"Dishonor" Quotes from Famous Books



... Tiber, giving fresh radiance to the marble palaces and temples, adding effect to whatever was already beautiful, diminishing the deformity of whatever was unlovely, even imparting a pleasant aspect of cheerfulness to the lower quarters of the city, where lay congregated poverty and dishonor and crime. The Appian Way no longer swarmed with the crowd that had trodden it an hour ago. The priests had completed the sacrifice and left the temple, the bathers had departed, the slaves no longer lingered upon ...
— The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... never contribute one farthing to the support of my lodge keeper's daughter. Go where you like—do as you like. You have chosen your own path. Some day you must return to Earlescourt as its master. I thank Heaven it will be when the degradation of my home and the dishonor of my race can not touch me. Go now; I shall expect you to have quitted the ...
— Dora Thorne • Charlotte M. Braeme

... success and losing ground daily, but driven to desperation by the apparent hopelessness of their cause, they sink to the depth of infamy by establishing among us secret orders, the aim of which is to educate men of base passions to deeds of dark dishonor and unmeasured infamy; men who receiving such instruction will concoct schemes for the burning of cities, for the liberation of their prisoners; and, lastly, they have sunk so low in the mire of dishonor, impelled by savage ferocity and hate, that it would ...
— The Great North-Western Conspiracy In All Its Startling Details • I. Windslow Ayer

... what contention, first, and then what corruption and dishonor, had paralyzed these two powers before the days of which we now speak. Reproof, and either reform or rebellion, became necessary everywhere. The northern Reformers, Holbein, and Luther, and Henry, and Cromwell, set themselves to their task rudely, and, it might seem, carried ...
— Ariadne Florentina - Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving • John Ruskin

... come back. He is the slave of a tyrant who has no compassion and knows no mercy. Oppose this tyrant, all ye who love the home circle better than the bawdy house; fight him all ye who set honor above dishonor; curse him all ye who prefer peace to discord, and law to anarchy; war against him in all ways unceasingly all ye to whom the thought of liberty and safety is dear, to whom happiness and truth are more desirable ...
— Fifteen Years in Hell • Luther Benson


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