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Quotation dates: 1531-1533
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Inhonest, a. Also: inhoneist. [e.m.E. and ME. (1340), L. inhonestus.] Dishonourable, disgraceful, shameful. — 1531 Acts Lords of Council MS. XLII. 153.
Quhilk is contrair the ordour of directioun … and is inhonest 1531 Bell. Boece I. 278.
To … tak peace … with ony inhonest conditionis 1533 Id. Livy II. 8/26.
The mater is sa vile and inhonest 1533 Boece x. viii. 364.
Sic thingis as war inhonest & vnworthy to be herde 1533 Ib. xv. v. 582.
Quhat may libertie availl to oure inhoneist lif … gif to this tressoun we consent
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