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Dishonor v. t. (past & past part. dishonored; pres. part. dishonoring) (Written also dishonour)

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."

To violate the chastity of; to debauch.

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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"Dishonored" Quotes from Famous Books

... the education of a gentleman. Quarrels such as elsewhere terminate in blows were scarcely known among us. I recall but two, both of which were immediately arrested by the spectators, who felt their college dishonored by such an exhibition of evil passion and violence. One of these was commenced by a youth coming only two weeks before from an English school. The other occurred, one evening when a small party of us had assembled ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 • Various

... citizen will be deemed inviolable when a state renounces the principles that constitute their security? Or if his life should not be invaded, what would its enjoyments be in a country odious in the eyes of strangers and dishonored in his own? Could he look with affection and veneration to such a country as his parent? The sense of having one would die within him; he would blush for his patriotism, if he retained any, and justly, for it would be a vice. ...

— American Eloquence, Volume I. (of 4) - Studies In American Political History (1896) • Various

... of the case whether we like it or not. If, now, it is not mere dishonor or mere exile that troubles you, but the fact that not only without having done your country any hurt, but after having benefited her greatly you were dishonored and expelled, look at it in this way,—that once it was destined for you to have such an experience, it has been the noblest and the best fortune that could befall you to be despitefully used without having committed any wrong. ...

— Dio's Rome • Cassius Dio

... was overturning his existence with its agitations, the same agonies were reappearing. Completely awake, with full powers of reasoning, he was suffering exactly the same distress as when in his horrible dreams he saw his dishonored signature on ...

— The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven; poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and over the night If you ask why you are to be honest—you are, in the question itself, dishonored 'Because you are a man,' is the only answer; and therefore I said in a former letter that to make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education. Make them men first and religious men afterwards, and all will be sound; but a knave's religion is always the rottenest thing about ...

— Arrows of Freethought • George W. Foote

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