Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not dishonored; not disgraced.
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Examples
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"I live distained, though undishonored," which is a less forced construction, and coincides with the rest of the passage, -- "I am contaminate through thee, though in myself immaculate."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various
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Willingly I would have sacrificed all my wealth for a simple permission to quit this infernal city with my poor female relations safe and undishonored.
The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English Julian Hawthorne 1890
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The forest, where the land was not actually built upon, stood up in its primitive simplicity undishonored by the axe.
Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia William Gilmore Simms 1838
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Palmyra, as one man, will pour out treasure to the last and least dust of gold, and blood to the last drop, that you may still sit secure upon that throne, and stretch your sceptre over a yet wider and undishonored empire. '
Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra William Ware 1824
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