| 单词 |
unhonourable |
| 释义 |
† unˈhonourable, a. Obs.
[un-1 7.]
1. Not honourable; not deserving of honour.
a1400–50Alexander 2950 Sen þis vse is here vn-honourable, here I þam leue. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 280 He war a wikkit man of lyf, a tyran and un⁓honourable. 1548Geste Pr. Masse 117 Why then shuld..thee presence therof cause to honour his Godhed in the same, ther otherwyse unhonourable. 1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 209 To trace out an unhonourable and fruitlesse life. 1635[Glapthorne] Lady Mother iii. ii. in Bullen O. Pl. (1883) II. 161 We are noe peasants or unhonorable To be affronted with indignities.
2. Dishonourable, discreditable.
1540Sir T. Wyatt Let. to Cromwell 5 April, If it were so the King's pleasure, I would make him such company as should not be unhonourable to the King. 1595Daniel Civ. Wars ii. xxiv, Th' vnhonourable meanes of safety, bade Danger accept, what Maiesty withstood. 1621in Foster Eng. Factories Ind. (1906) I. 274 Unhonnorable action by breatch of his word and cowle. |
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