Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To reproach; censure; defame.
- Infamous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To defame; to make infamous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
defame ; to makeinfamous .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But to be sure, I looked the word up and found it to be "infame" ... instead ... and the root of the word, to be "La fama".
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"Let us go back and 'ecraser l'infame' by paying him a year's rent in advance and taking immediate possession.
A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete William Dean Howells 1878
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"Let us go back and 'ecraser l'infame' by paying him a year's rent in advance and taking immediate possession.
Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878
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"Let us go back and 'ecraser l'infame' by paying him a year's rent in advance and taking immediate possession.
A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 1 William Dean Howells 1878
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Question is, with his career now over, will he do a Glitter/Jonathan King when he's released next February and use his infame to promote his perversion as 'normal'?
Langham In Danger Newmania 2007
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My vote: Constantine Maroulis of American Idol infame for that very distinguished and clearly rebellious role.
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Eleanor also resented the stigma associated with admission, in that it would make her ever incapable of anie complaint but ever held or taken to be person non compos mentis to the perpetuall blott and infame of her familie and posteritie.60
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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Eleanor also resented the stigma associated with admission, in that it would make her ever incapable of anie complaint but ever held or taken to be person non compos mentis to the perpetuall blott and infame of her familie and posteritie.60
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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Eleanor also resented the stigma associated with admission, in that it would make her ever incapable of anie complaint but ever held or taken to be person non compos mentis to the perpetuall blott and infame of her familie and posteritie.60
Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008
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The first comer is a wretch, Femme — woman — rhymes with infame, — infamous.
Les Miserables 2008
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