loss of honor

In conservative, tightly knit communities, such loss of honor can be devastating.

Hamilton, for one, said he had to fight, lest the loss of honor drag him so low that he would be unable to pursue his statesmanship.

Marziyeh has been missing for three days, though her family seems less concerned for her safety than they are about their loss of honor in the event of a scandal.

“I’ve come to view it as a contest rooted in emotional issues,” she wrote, “feelings of unrequited love, unfinished business, denial, and loss of honor. J. Seward Johnson’s behavior toward his children — his patterns of rejection and divisiveness — ultimately led them into a courtroom seeking to find what they had never had from him: recognition, a sense of worthiness, and a measure of a father’s love. Perhaps restitution for this loss came to be equated with money. But money was all that was left.”

Olenka cast her eyes over the letter, and read as follows:— "Since it has come to our knowledge that Billevich, the sword-bearer of Rossyeni, intends to leave our residence in secret, with plans hostile to us,—namely, to excite his acquaintances, connections, relatives, and clients to rebellion against his Swedish Majesty and us,—we recommend to the officers remaining in garrison at Taurogi to guard Billevich and his niece as hostages and prisoners of war, and not to permit their flight under pain of loss of honor and court-martial," etc.