We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. By clicking 'continue' or by continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings in your browser at any time.

Continue
Find out more
deshoneste (s.xiiex)
Cite this entry

Browse the Dictionary

    Loading...

deshoneste (s.xiiex)

Cite this entry
deshonest;  dishonest  
  FEW:  honestus 4,461b Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  deshoneste 9,340b TL: deshoneste 2,1609 DEAF:  oneste (desoneste)  DMF:  déshonnête  TLF: ∅ OED:  dishonest adj.  MED:  dishonest(e) adj.  DMLBS: ∅

a.

1dishonourable, base: 
( 1310 )  Deshoneste chose est a prodhomme a demander ceo qe son predecessor ad relessé  YBB Ed II iv 67
2improper: 
( s.xiiex; MS: c.1200 )  tel liu ki mut est deshoneste  GUISCH 157
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv1/3 )  en deshonest lu  Mir Just 171
( 1399 )  repeller le dit article, come chose dishonest  Rot Parl1 iii 442
♦immoral, lewd: 
( s.xivin; MS: s.xiv1 )  neif files deshonestes  boz Seven Poems 106.25
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  jeo [...] eusse une lede povre garce beisee, deshoneste de son corps, qe [...]  Sz Med1 179
( 1389-90 )  ascuns femmes dishonestes  YBB 13 Rich II 154
( c.1405; MS: s.xv1 )  la dishoneste vie et male gouvernance d’une J.B., noneigne  Lett & Pet 346

See also:

deshonestation  deshonesté  deshonestement  deshonester  deshonesteté  honest 
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
deshoneste