shend
verb/ʃɛnd/
Etymology From Middle English schenden, from Old English sċendan (“to put to shame, blame, disgrace”), from Proto-West Germanic *skandijan (“to scold, berate”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kem- (“to cover”). Cognate with Dutch schenden (“to infringe, profane, defile”), German schänden (“defile”). Related to Old English sċand (“infamy, shame, scandal”). More at shand, shame.
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Obsolete To disgrace or put to shame.
- Her fawning love with foule disdainefull spight He would not shend1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Do you hear how we are shent for keeping your greatness back?c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
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Archaic To blame.
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Archaic To destroy; to spoil.
- Go see their fleet and arms, their manner view / of moulded metal, ready all to shend[.]1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 279:
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Archaic To overpower; to surpass.
- 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.1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 339:
- 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.1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Chapter 7, The Hooded Face”, in The Black Arrow:
- Derived terms
- shendship, toshend