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† infaˈmation Obs.
[a. f. infamation (1359 -acion, in Godef.), ad. L. infāmātiōn-em, n. of action f. infāmāre: see infame v.]
The action of holding up to infamy; the spreading of an ill report; defamation.
1533More Apol. xlv. Wks. 915/2 He bryngeth in as you see, his charitable infamacion of the cleargies crueltie, making men wene it wer so. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1684) II. 123/2 The nature of the Church hath ever been to suffer..slanderous reports and infamation by the malignant Adversaries. 1651Life Father Sarpi (1676) 50 Some such pestiferous Pens..have..infected the World with impostures and infamations of those, whose works they were neither able to extinguish nor confute. |