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dishonourable, -honorable, a.|dɪsˈɒnərəb(ə)l|
[app. orig. f. dishonour v. + -able; but in some uses regarded as f. dis- 10 + honourable. Cf. F. déshonorable (14th c. in Godef.).]
1. Entailing dishonour; involving disgrace and shame; ignominious, base.
1533–4Act 25 Hen. VIII, c. 22 §1 The continuance..whereof..were..dishonorable to the hole realme. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. i. ii. 138 And peepe about To finde our selues dishonourable Graves. 1651Hobbes Leviath. i. x. 44 Craft, Shifting, neglect of Equity, is Dishonourable. 1749Fielding Tom Jones xiv. v, The words dishonourable birth are nonsense..unless the word dishonourable be applied to the parents. 1846Greener Sc. Gunnery 345 More disgraceful, more dishonourable conduct, has never characterized the British service.
†b. Without moral implication: Mean, paltry. Obs. rare.
1699Bentley Phal. Pref. 66 If the Room be too mean, and too little for the Books;..if the Access to it be dishonourable; is the Library-keeper to answer for 't?
2. Of persons:
†a. To be regarded with dishonour, disesteemed (obs. rare).
b. Devoid or negligent of honour; meriting shame and reproach; unprincipled, base, despicable.
1611Bible Ecclus. x. 31 He that is honoured in pouertie, how much more in riches, and he that is dishonourable in riches, how much more in pouertie? 1749[see sense 1]. 1864Tennyson Aylmer's F. 292 Ungenerous, dishonourable, base..trusted as he was. Mod. A dishonourable opponent at cards.
Hence disˈhonourableness, dishonourable quality, dishonour; disˈhonourably adv., in a dishonourable manner, with dishonour; discreditably, basely.
1590C. S. Right Relig. 29 Who (most dishonourably to Christ) acknowledge the Pope the head therof. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxi. 112 They are not esteemed to do it unjustly, but dishonourably. 1727Bailey vol. II, Dishonourableness, dishonourable quality. 1769Junius Lett. iv, Your own Manilla ransom most dishonourably given up. 1776Adam Smith W.N. i. x. (1869) I. 105 The honourableness or dishonourableness of the employment. a1797H. Walpole Mem. Geo. II (1847) II. x. 343 The injustice and dishonourableness of retracting what he had authorized Keppel to say.
Add:[1.] c. dishonourable discharge U.S. Mil., dismissal with disgrace from military service by court martial.
1865Gen. Court Martial Orders (U.S. War Dept.) 14 June No. 301, Sentence. ‘Dishonorable discharge and imprisonment during the war.’ 1889Regulations Army U.S. (U.S. War Dept.) 110 The period of time at which a dishonorable discharge is to take effect, as fixed by a sentence, cannot be postponed by the reviewing officer. 1919Forum Oct. 448 These men have received harsh and unjustifiable sentences, imprisonment with dishonorable discharge, the death penalty, which..I considered as beyond the scope of human justice. 1944Atlantic Monthly June 51/2 A deserter who gave himself up after an absence of more than sixty days was liable to dishonorable discharge and confinement at hard labor for a year. 1989K. Green Night Angel 279 While still in marine boot camp, he'd been given six months in the brig and a dishonorable discharge from the corps. |