† ˈshendfully, adv. Obs.
[f. shendful a. + -ly2.]
Ignominiously, disgracefully, infamously.
| a 1225 Ancr. R. 316 Spec hire scheome schendfuliche. 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 6343 Þus senduolliche he him slou. 1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. iii. 261 God sende to seye þat [Saul] schulde dye, And al his seed for þat Sunne schendfulliche ende. 1480 Caxton Chron. Eng. xcii. e 6 b, Edelf..bethought howe that he myȝt..marie hir to a knaue of his kychen..and to hym he thought hir shendfully haue maried for to haue had hir land afterward. a 1513 Fabyan Chron. v. lxxix. (1533) 32 The enymyes of the lande were shendfully chasyd and vtterly confounded. |