Word of the Day: HONISH

ETYMOLOGY
 from Anglo-Norman huniss-, Anglo-Norman and Old French honiss-, extended stem of Anglo-Norman hunir, Anglo-Norman and Old French honir (French honnir ) to shame, to humiliate, to ruin, to damage

FIRST DOCUMENTED USE
a1325 – see EXAMPLE below

EXAMPLE
“…Me sholde him [sc. Christ] hounschy & skorne boþe ffer & neye.….”

 From: The Southern Passion
A Middle English poem;
Edited by Beatrice Daw Brown, 1927