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Unshent vs Shent - What's the difference?

unshent | shent | Derived terms |

Shent is a derived term of unshent.



As an adjective unshent

is not shent; not disgraced; blameless.

As a verb shent is

past tense of shend.

unshent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Not shent; not disgraced; blameless.
  • * Bishop Joseph Hall
  • Ho! all ye females that would live unshent , / Fly from the reach of Cyned's regiment.
  • :* {{quote-book
  • , year=1904 , year_published=2005 , edition=Reprint , editor= , author=George Henry Needler , title=The Niebelungenlied Translated in Rhymed English , chapter=How the Margrave was Slain citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=Then sprang upon each other / those knights on honor bent, / And each from wounds deep cutting / sought to keep him all unshent . }}

    References

    (Webster 1913)

    shent

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (shend)
  • Derived terms

    * unshent

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