shend

Definitions

1. To disgrace or put to shame.
   obsolete
2. To blame.
   archaic
3. To destroy; to spoil.
   archaic
4. To overpower; to surpass.
   archaic

Examples

“Her fawning love⟳ with foule disdainefull spight He would not shend”

“Do you hear⟳ how we are shent for keeping your greatness back?”

“Go see⟳ their fleet and arms, their manner view⟳ / of moulded metal, ready all to shend[.]”

“Since sware the Parcæ unto me, their friend, / they shall adore my name⟳, my favour prize; / and, as their feats of armèd prowess shend / all feats of rival Rome, I lief devise / some mode of aidance in what things I may, / far as our force⟳ o'er man extendeth sway.”

“Not since I backed a horse have⟳ I been perssed so hard; peril of life, jeopardy of land⟳ and livelihood, and to sum up, all these losels in the wood to hunt me down. But I be not yet shent. Some of my lads will pick⟳ me their way home.”

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