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Undefamit, ppl. adj. Also: undefame(i)t, -famed, -feamed, undefame. [Late ME and e.m.E. vndefamed (a1450); Defamit ppl. adj.] Not of ill fame, undisgraced.In the quot. Rolland Seven S. 315, the sense seems to require always rather than never.(a) 1540 Lynd. Sat. 2042.
Wait ye not weill how I am nemmit? A nobill man and vndefamit 1560 Rolland Seven S. 2408.
Ȝour self sall not chaip vndefamit 1564 St. A. Kirk S. 227.
He, believyng [hyr] at thar contract to have beyn ane fre woman undefamit, tuk hyr haym to his awyn hows 1567 Anderson Collect. Mary I 143.
Undefamed 1571 Bann. Memor. 153.
I … as a trew gentlman vndefeamed, tuike vpon me [etc.] 1578 Reg. Privy C. III 60.
He is ane trew man, knawin honest and undefamit sen he was borne 1608 Edinb. B. Rec. VI 38.
Gif any undefamet wemen … in thair service sall happin … to fall on the said vyces 1626 Edinb. Test. LIII 260.
That the said Barbara … leive verteouslie vndefameit and in hir mariage vse counsell(b) 1560 Rolland Seven S. 315.
Lord I am auld, and neuer vndefame On ȝour counsall, and hes bene mony ȝeir