unhonour

unhonour

English

Alternative forms

• unhonor

Etymology

From un- +‎ honour.

Noun

unhonour (uncountable)

1. The lack or absence of honour; dishonour.
   • 1861, John Eadie, A Commentary on the Greek Text of the Epistle of Paul:

     Quite foreign to the thought is the opinion of Hofmann, that as a man declares his will to make a woman his wife by a word or declaration, and so takes her from the unhonour of her maiden condition, so has Christ done to the church.

   • 1923, Ghulam Rassul Galwan, Servant of Sahibs:

     Razak Akhun, and other Ladaki, and I abuse to Kalam Rassul, and we said: "We all men will beat you for this, which you made unhonor to our sahib before Tibetan." He begged pardon to us for this matter.

   • 2009, James Fenimore Cooper, The Pathfinder:

     There is honor in doing what's right, and unhonor in doing what's wrong; and I think it wrong to take the life even of a Mingo, without a useful end in view, I do; and right to hear reason at all times.