Meaning & use
shent
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archaic: disgraced, shamed, or ruined.
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In the old ballad, the knight was shent before the entire court for his cowardice.
She felt utterly shent after her scheme was exposed in front of everyone.
A note on using this word
This is the archaic past participle of the obsolete verb 'shend', meaning to put to shame; it appears occasionally in Middle English and Elizabethan literature, including Shakespeare.
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