Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Preterit and past participle of shend.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of
shend , forshendeth . - transitive verb obsolete To shend.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
shend .
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Examples
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And you owe your present shituation to forces he has shent in purshuit of you?
The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010
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So he bore with his injurious usage, saying to himself, Verily insolence and evil-speaking are causes of perdition and cast into confusion, and it is said, ‘The insolent is shent and the ignorant doth repent; and whose feareth, to him safety is sent’: moderation marketh the noble and gentle manners are of gains the grandest.
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He now needs decoding: looking up "" fardels '' and "" bodkin, '' disentangling syntax: "" How in my words somever she be shent, '' says Hamlet before confronting his mother, "" To give them seals, never, my soul, consent! ''
Shakespeare 2008
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It drifted with them at the will of the winds and the waves, night and day a great while, till their victual was spent and they saw themselves shent and were reduced to extreme hunger and thirst and exhaustion, when behold, suddenly they sighted an island from afar and the breezes wafted them on, till they came thither.
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Do you hear how we are shent for keeping your greatness back?
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And then they took their horses, and rode after to see how Sir Dagonet sped, for they would not for no good that Sir Dagonet were shent, for King Arthur loved him passing well, and made him knight with his own hands.
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Fair sir, said the damosel, abate not your cheer for all this sight, for ye must courage yourself, or else ye be all shent, for all these knights came hither to this siege to rescue my sister
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Do you hear how we are shent for keeping your greatness back?
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The Hebrew shíttah is probably a contraction of Shinttah, and thus identical with the Egyptian shent; the Coptic shonte, thorn; the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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Fair sir, said the damosel, abate not your cheer for all this sight, for ye must courage yourself, or else ye be all shent, for all these knights came hither to this siege to rescue my sister Dame Lionesse, and when the Red Knight of the Red Launds had overcome them, he put them to this shameful death without mercy and pity.
bilby commented on the word shent
"FIRST GUARD: Do you hear how we are shent for keeping your greatness back?"
- William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'.
August 29, 2009