† ˈshendship Obs.
Forms: 4–5 s(c)hend-, s(c)hent-, (5 scend-); 4–5 s(c)hen-, sen- (4 scen, schin-); see also -ship.
[ME. schendschipe, f. schend, pa. pple. of schende shend v.1 + -ship.]
Disgrace, ignominy; an instance of this. Also, something that is a cause of disgrace.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 17470 Bot wat yll þar-wit quat þai wan Scencip and scam o mani man. Ibid. 18172 Wi quat ert þou þat es sa wight Vr scenscep for to scau to dright? 1303 R. Brunne Handl. Synne 8250 Þat name Ys our shenshyp and oure shame. 13.. Guy Warw. (A.) 3294 And now he me wil sle wiþ schenschipe. 1340 Hampole Pr. Consc. 7877 Bot now will I specialy shew yhow mare Of seven maners of blysses þare, And of seven schenschepes in helle alle-swa. c 1350 Will. Palerne 556 Þat were a schamly schenchip to schende me euer. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints l. (Katerine) 306 & at scho mycht sic defence ma Þat it war senschepe till hir fa. c 1386 Chaucer Pars. T. 199 To muchel am I peyned for the thynges that I neuere deserued, and to muche defouled for shendshipe that man is worthy to haue. c 1425 Eng. Conq. Irel. xlv. 114 To-day he wold do the wyrshype, tomorow he wold the reue to do shendshype [c 1440 shenshipp]. 1426 Audelay Poems 5 He wold here selle that he had boȝt, And schenschypus here that he hath soȝt. c 1450 St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 4486 For thing þat meke men oft amendes, God to schrewes to senschipe sends. 1470–85 Malory Arthur xii. xiii. 609 God saue yow this day from senshyp and shame. 1493 Dives & Pauper (W. de W.) iv. i. 161/1 His childern sholde be shame & shenshyp to hym. |
b. = shame n. rare—1.
| 1382 Wyclif Lev. xx. 11 He that slepith with his stepdam, and opneth the shenship [Vulg. ignominiam] of his fader, thurȝ deth dien thei bothe. |