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Honor's opposite
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infamy
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Word definitions for infamy in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Infamy , in common usage, is the notoriety gained from a negative incident or reputation (as opposed to fame ). The word stems from the Latin infamia , antonym of fama (in the sense of "good reputation").
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of being infamous. 2 A reputation as being evil.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Old French infamie (14c.), earlier infame , and directly from Latin infamia "ill fame, bad repute, dishonor, from infamis "of ill fame," from in- "not, without" + fama "reputation" (see fame (n.)).
Usage examples of infamy.
All the obscenity and salacious infamy spawned in the muck of the abysmal pits of life seemed to drown her in seas of cosmic filth.
All the obscenity and salacious infamy spawned in the muck of the abysmal pits of Life seemed to drown her in seas of cosmic filth.
The consequence of a defeat was death to the person accused, or to the champion or witness, as well as to the accuser himself: but in civil cases, the demandant was punished with infamy and the loss of his suit, while his witness and champion suffered ignominious death.
I was the man she would have preferred to all others, and I had the infamy to give way.
I could see all the infamy of the count in the taking back of the watch which belonged to her as a gift, and which the unhappy girl had earned but too well.
Instead, the Acts Rescissory were permitted to remain on the Statute-book, and the Covenants to lie under the infamy to which the King and the Royalists had consigned them.
You have taken me to a den of infamy, where I was shamefully robbed of jewellery to the value of more than three hundred Louis.
It became the honorable appellation of the sons of Severus, was bestowed on young Diadumenianus, and at length prostituted to the infamy of the high priest of Emesa.
WSLJ, and her clientele had grown exponentially with her new-found infamy.
Weak and vacillating as he was in most things, it seemed that the earl could be strong in his dislike of his son, and firm in his determination not to condone the infamy of his behavior toward Hortensia Winthrop.
Either way, she would live in infamy in the legends of the Meth, as she who was afraid to save the race, or as she who had destroyed everything gained in generations free of the silth.
Oh, let us purge these statements of outgrown crudities, cruelties, falsities, blasphemies, infamies!
The pensionary, who had not been terrified from performing the part of a kind brother and faithful friend during this prosecution, resolved not to desert him on account of the unmerited infamy which was endeavored to be thrown upon him.
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He was ambitious, and was founder of the system of serfdom, and also of the Russian State Church, and like many of the other rulers of Russia, met death through infamy, supposedly having been poisoned.