ppl. a. (UN-1 8.)
1590. Shaks., Com. Err., II. ii. 148. I liue distain’d, thou vndishonoured.
1613. Beaum. & Fl., Honest Man’s Fort., I. i. Then you were So noble, that I durst have trusted your Embraces…, And yet come from you—undishonor’d.
1638. Brome, Antipodes, I. vii. In money I tender him double satisfaction, With his own wares again unblemished, undishonor’d.
1726. Pope, Odyss., XXII. 350. Still undishonour’d or by word or deed Thy house, for me, remains.
1834. Bryant, Romero, 5, in Poems, 62.
| Romero broke the sword he wore— | |
| Go, faithful brand, the warrior said, | |
| Go, undishonored, never more | |
| The blood of man shall make thee red. |
1850. Thackeray, Pendennis, lviii. The name of Pendennis … was left undishonoured behind us.
1881. Swinburne, Mary Stuart, I. i. I had rather die Thus undishonoured.
1910. Ellen M. H. Gates, To the Unborn Peoples, etc., 14.
| Sovereign Spirit, back I throw | |
| Blame and failure; I shall go | |
| Unaffrighted to my place, | |
| Undishonored by my race. |
