Unhonour

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The lack or absence of honour; dishonour. uncountable

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From un- + honour.

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