unshent

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ shent.

Adjective

unshent (comparative more unshent, superlative most unshent)

1. (obsolete) Not shent; not disgraced; blameless.
   • c. 1600, John Ayliffe, Satires:

     Ho! all ye females that would live unshent, / Fly from the reach of Cyned's regiment.

   • 1904, George Henry Needler, “How the Margrave was Slain”, in The Niebelungenlied Translated in Rhymed English‎^[1], Reprint edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2005:

     Then sprang upon each other / those knights on honor bent, / And each from wounds deep cutting / sought to keep him all unshent.

References

“unshent”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• 'ten-shun, ten-shun