Therefore the dishonouring of the rulers tendeth to the dissolution of the government, and ruin of the commonwealth.
You are gradually to honour them more than others, and therefore to be more afraid of dishonouring them, and must not sit in judgment on them, to believe any harm of them, which evidence doth not compel you to believe.
Well, yes, I did wish to assassinate you, because at the Presidio de Tubar I was assured that you had only carried off my niece for the purpose ofdishonouring her.
Because you only know very slightly--and what you know of them is good--the people you are dishonouring by that epithet.
Having stated parenthetically the effect of dishonouring and honouring Himself, Christ returns to the proof of His divine power.
For they hoped to squeeze some profit, infinitesimal indeed, out of tattered or incomplete volumes; forgetting in their greed that they were dishonouring the sages, and laying up for themselves certain calamity.
Those who now embrace Christ Call him Lord of heaven and earth, Worshipping him with prayer, Deceiving and exciting the foolish, Dishonouring the holy teaching of Confucius.
I was particularly reminded afresh, in hearing brother Craik, of the danger of dishonouring the Lord in that very way in which I have, through His grace, in some small measure brought glory to Him, even by trusting in Him.
I had deemed it dishonouring in a noble nature to countenance insult to a noble enemy in his absence.
O my Lord, have I been all these years dishonouring Thee, and setting up another, even though it be Thy blessed mother, between Thee and me?
I must struggle against this enemy, mistrust; I must try to bring my very thoughts into subjection,--those thoughts now so full of fears dishonouring to my gracious Master.
Is not the inconsistency of His childrendishonouring to God?
The prayers of the-Prayer-Book are dishonouring to God from their childishness, their unreality, their folly, their conflict with sound knowledge.
To the outside critic, these continual references to Jesus, as though God grudged all good gifts, appear very dishonouring to the "Father in Heaven.
How different had it been, had England avoided the dishonouring touch of Austria, and sought her ally in a Polish revolution.
The September Convention, most dishonouring and impolitic of treaties, was concluded, and it seemed to mark, as in the letter it did, a renunciation of the claims to Rome.
He could not with dignity make use of that will, which, both in form and in substance was dishonouring to his grandmother, arousing as it did, when the letter was considered, a suspicion of criminal suppression.
Do you realise," said Franco, "that I should be dishonouring my own father?
From end to end it was a tissue of distorted statements implicated with dishonouring suggestions.
Is it right that the actors of these poetical and God-dishonouring effusions be branded, while their authors are honoured?
The lady who refused the dishonouring suit of the fairest prince and the boldest knight in the Christian world thereby made herself worthy of the suit that honoured her; it was not Elizabeth Woodville alone that won the purple.
After dishonouring the king, they held him besieged, and allowed no one to approach him, save their minions, in order to degrade him, and keep honest men from his familiarity.
By shamelesslydishonouring the king's bed, and introducing their vile posterity in the place of the pure blood of Oldenburg.
Thus did the army misbehave amongst the people, dishonouring every bed, robbing every house, devastating every field, till they were themselves involved in the general ruin.
What possible benefit worth naming could accrue to them from a transaction dishonouring to the Lord of heaven, which, if it did not make Him their enemy, could not but chill His interest in them?
They died apparently as they had lived, in the very act ofdishonouring God.
What a dishonouringidea of God, if they imagine that the service of their bodies or of their lips is anything to Him.
Justinian's conduct was dishonouring to the Church, and he used force to get the decrees of the Council accepted.
They believe in Jesus Christ; but they dishonour Him by dishonouring His poor, while they profess to keep the law of charity by honouring the rich.
But the error of the worldly Christians whom St. James is here rebuking does not end with dishonouring the poor whom God has honoured; they also pay special respect to the rich.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dishonouring" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
