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Definition of Dishonoring
1. dishonor [v] - See also: dishonor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dishonoring
Literary usage of Dishonoring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life and Public Services of Charles Sumner by Charles Edwards Lester (1874)
"books their dishonoring Black codes. The Attorney-General officially pronounces
the Negro a citizen of the ..."
2. The Doctrine of Sacred Scripture: A Critical, Historical, and Dogmatic by George Trumbull Ladd (1883)
"The post-Reformation dogma, in its attempt to do honor to the very word and letter
of the Bible, led to views alike dishonoring to the Spirit of God and to ..."
3. The Law of Banks and Banking: Including Acceptance, Demand and Notice of by John Maxcy Zane (1900)
"... right to set off.13 This right if waived is ended,14 and cannot be revived by
a bill in equity.15 § 145. Liability to drawer for dishonoring check. ..."
4. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"But the wildest excesses of faction are less dishonoring than the stillness and
moral degradation of servitude.* It was a very common theme with political ..."
5. Morning and Evening Exercises: Selected from the Published and Unpublished by Henry Ward Beecher, Lyman Abbott (1874)
"... without for a moment dishonoring Christ's patience and goodness, say, " Let
the dead bury their dead ; let the past suffice for the past ; now, Lord, ..."
6. The International Standard Bible Encyclopaedia by James Orr (1915)
"... His Father's ordinance the crowds were assembled to observe; His Father's
name, too, they were dishonoring by their formalism and hypocrisy. ..."
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