shendとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ʃɛnd/
• 韻: -ɛnd

動詞

shend (third-person singular simple present shends, present participle shending, simple past and past participle shent)

1. (obsolete) To disgrace or put to shame.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Her fawning love with foule disdainefull spight
     He would not shend

   • 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]:

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

2. (archaic) To blame.
3. (archaic) To destroy; to spoil.
   • 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 279:

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

4. (archaic) To overpower; to surpass.
   • 1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume II, page 339:

     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.

引用

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派生語

• shendship

アナグラム

• Dehns, hends