infamy

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When I came to Court the infamy was a thing accomplished--all of it.

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  1. noun Evil fame or reputation.
  2. noun The condition of being infamous.
  3. noun An evil or criminal act that is publicly known.

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  • When I came to Court the infamy was a thing accomplished--all of it. —  The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series
  • To one of Dorothy's spirit and fineness there dwelt in this an infamy, a baseness, of which Mr. Harley with his lucky coarseness of fiber escaped all notice Throwing herself on the bed, Dorothy burrowed her face in the pillow and gave her tears their way. —  The President A novel
  • To attain this depth of infamy is at one and the same time to sin and to receive the penalty of sin. —  Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
  • I strove to think that all this grandeur was but more glaring infamy, and that, by planting his gold-enwoven flag beside my tarnished and tattered banner, he proclaimed not his superiority, but his debasement. —  The Last Man
  • A new blotch of infamy--the Lusitania_--was added to the Black Name of the Beast Notice, also, that as is being done with many feature pictures of this or similar type today, the producers have adhered throughout to the past tense in wording their sub-titles 6. —  Writing the Photoplay
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English infamie, dishonor, from Old French, from Latin īnfāmia, from īnfāmis, infamous; see infamous.

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  1. = French infamie, Old French infame = Provencal Spanish Portuguese Italian infamia, from Latin infamia, ill fame, from infamis, of ill fame: see infame, adjective, infamous.
 

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