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notoriety|nəʊtəˈraɪətɪ|
[a. F. notoriété (= It. notorieta, Sp. -edad, Pg. -edade), or ad. med.L. nōtōrietas, f. nōtōrius notorious a.; cf. dubiety, nimiety, etc.]
1. The state or character of being notorious; the fact of being publicly or commonly known.
1592[cited by Nashe, Four Lett. Confut. Wks. (Grosart) II. 263, as one of Gabriel Harvey's words]. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) 28 Upon the notorietie of a great and haynous fact,..the transgressor to be secluded fra the communion. 1660Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. iii. iii. rule 6 §2 But this thing is evident by notoriety of fact. a1683Owen Holy Sp. (1693) 195 The joynt Participation of the same Gift by all, and the Notoriety of the matter thereon. 1749Fielding Tom Jones (1775) II. 5 The credit of the former [historians] is by common notoriety supported for a long time. 1771Junius Lett. lxv. (1788) 338 The truth of which you dare not deny, because it is of public notoriety. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. I. 4 He has become a character of considerable notoriety in two or three country towns. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. ii. I. 237 He had been raised..to notoriety such as has for low and bad minds all the attractions of glory. 1873Farrar Fam. Speech ii. 47 It is now a matter of simple notoriety that not merely in sounds and letters [etc.].
Comb.1891Spectator 18 Apr. 534/1 Some of them may be notoriety-hunters.
†2. A notorious thing or fact. Obs. rare—1.
1745H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 52 Letters from Holland speak of it as a notoriety.
3. A well-known or celebrated person.
1837Thackeray Ravenswing ii, He knew..all the actors, all the ‘notorieties’ of the town. 1840Carlyle Heroes (1858) 283 We cannot but see..that it was against his will he ever became a notoriety. 1884Athenæum 21 June 786/2 The Bonaparte family and the heroes or notorieties of the French Revolution. |