The act or process of depriving someone of honor; a state of being dishonored or disgraced.
From dehonestate + -ion (noun suffix), following the Latin pattern honestus → honestas. This archaic term was used in early modern English.
Medieval and Renaissance writers used dehonestation to describe the ultimate social punishment—losing your reputation was sometimes worse than losing your wealth or even your life.
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