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1533 T. More Debellacyon Salem & Bizance i. ii. f. xvii^v [This] shold but make..bothe partes more infamouse, amonge suche other..as wold be gladde and reioyce to here mych euyl spoken of them bothe.

a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. B I feare he is fallne into that damned art, for which they two are infamous through the world.

1611 Bible (King James) Ezek. xxii. 5 Those that be neere..shall mocke thee which art infamous, and much vexed. View more context for this quotation

a1677 J. Taylor Contempl. State Man (1684) i. ix. 109 Set before thy eyes Christ crucified upon Mount Calvary; if a man more infamous be imaginable.

1736 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. IX. 7 Perseus was utterly infamous for his crimes.

1844 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VIII. lx. 11 He appears to have been more infamous for sacrilege than for bloodshed.

c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 271 No man liȝtiþ a lanterne in derknesse, and puttiþ it in oon of þes two infamous [MS. Douce 321 famous] places: neþer in hid place ne undir a bushel.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xix. cxvii. (Add. MS. 27944) lf. 326/2 Þis nombre..is in-fames among som men, for, by þe nombre of tweyne we beþ departed fro oon, and so þis nombre is acompted tokne..of departyng.

1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 217 No lesse infortunate, but much more infamous to this countrie, was the time of the seconde muster.

1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine ii. xii. 253 The high-way betwixt Jericho and Ierusalem is infamous for theeving.

?1677 S. Primatt City & Covntry Purchaser & Builder 10 Salisbury Plain, and divers other places..famous for curious air, and as infamous for their barrenness.

1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1778) II. vi. 155 An island, infamous for the most unhealthy climate in that region of America.

1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. xv. 281 A part of the Coast, infamous in ancient times, under the name of Cœla (the Hollows).

1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) xlvi. 178 O thou ryght enfamouse churle and olde myschaunte!

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. xii. sig. M2^v False erraunt knight, infamous, and forswore.

1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 147 A Sinke of Filth, where aye th' infamousest, Most bold and buisie, are esteemed best.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 126. ¶3 Infamous Hypocrites that are for promoting their own Advantage, under Colour of the publick Good.

1841 E. W. Lane tr. Thousand & One Nights I. 108 Thou liest, thou infamous woman.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 208 The nobilitie..repute it infamous to ioyne with any of base parentage.

1590 C. Marlowe Tamburlaine: 1st Pt. sig. E5^v Then is there left..no hope of end: To our infamous monstrous slaueries.

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 417 My former servitude, ignoble, Unmanly, ignominious, infamous . View more context for this quotation

a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 105 Detest the very ground, on which was acted such an infamous treachery.

1858 Act 21 & 22 Vict. c. 90 §29 Any registered medical practitioner..guilty of infamous conduct in any professional respect.

1864 E. A. Parkes Man. Pract. Hygiene ii. iii. 519 The sanitary conditions..were, without exception, infamous.

1395 Remonstr. (1851) 87 And thei that ben forsworen opinli, ben infamis, and worthi to be priuid of alle beneficis.]

1548 Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI c. 15 §1 Everie Person so conspiring..for the third offence shall..be taken as a man infamous and his sayinge deposicions or oathe not to be credyted at anye tyme in any matters of judgement.

1551 Sc. Acts Mary (1597) c. 19 Infamous persons, never able to bruik office, honour, dignitie, nor benefice in time to-cum.

1651 W. G. tr. J. Cowell Inst. Lawes Eng. 278 They [perjurers] were to be committed to Prison, and for ever rendered so infamous, that they were deprived of the benefit of the Lawes, and their Testimonies never to be admitted in any Cause.

1707 J. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 22) iii. viii. (Punishments) 339 They are condemned to lose the Franchise or Freedom of the Law, that is, become Infamous, and of no Credit.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 55 Persons that are Infamous, or branded with any Note of Infamy,..are ipso Jure forbidden to be Advocates.

1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. III. xxiii. 370 Infamous persons are such as may be challenged as jurors, propter delictum.

1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India I. i. iii. 59 Infamous persons..with others disqualified on slighter grounds, are in the first instance excluded from giving testimony.

a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 255 And so had two wives at once, which is by the civil law a thing infamous.

c1780 Constit. U.S. Amendm. v No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury.

1785 W. Paley Princ. Moral & Polit. Philos. vi. ix. 548 Infamous punishments are mismanaged in this country, with respect both to the crimes and the criminals.

1861 Act 24 & 25 Victoria c. 96 §46 (margin) ‘Infamous crime’ defined.

1865 J. Bright Speeches Amer. Question 187 A conspiracy whose fundamental institution..is declared to be felony, and infamous by the statutes of their country.

1870 Act 33 & 34 Victoria c. 77 §10 No man who has been or shall be attainted of any treason or felony, or convicted of any crime that is infamous, unless he shall have obtained a free pardon..is or shall be qualified to serve on juries or inquests.

1897 Bouvier's Law Dict. (U.S.) (at cited word) The..doctrine..that imprisonment in a state prison or a penitentiary with or without hard labour was an infamous punishment.

1900 N.E.D. at Infamous Mod. Newsp. A warrant being issued against him for an infamous crime, he fled the country.