单词 | infamy |
释义 | infamyn. 1. a. Evil fame or reputation; scandalous repute; public reproach, shame, or disgrace. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > infamy or notoriety > [noun] famec1325 infame1413 infamy1473 escry1484 enfame1532 famosity1535 notoriousness1607 infamousness1675 stigmaticalness1727 1473 Rolls of Parl. VI. 69/2 Nowe there remayneth no colour or matere of argument to the hurt or infamye of the same right and title. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos xxvi. 93 Thou hast dyuerted my honour in-to dishonest infamye. 1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Ejv She should incurre most vyle infamie. a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 160 He not onely saw Christ in glory betweene Moses and Elias..But he saw him also in Infamy betweene two theeves. a1781 R. Watson Hist. Reign Philip III (1783) ii. 87 The young baron de Harmont, involved himself in ruin and infamy, by surrendering it [sc. Grave]. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. v. 301 Two caitiffs..whose names are handed down to infamy. b. with an and plural. An instance of this: in quot. 1611 transferred an object of public reproach. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > infamy or notoriety > [noun] > instance of infamy1526 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > infamy or notoriety > [noun] > object of infamy1526 note1563 the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > baseness > base conduct > [noun] > instance infamy1526 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. MM To suffre all..aduersite: As..persecucions, temptacions, and infamyes or shames. 1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales i. xi. 21 Now was the time to blot out the infamies of their former conspiracies. 1611 Bible (King James) Ezek. xxxvi. 3 Ye are taken vp in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people. View more context for this quotation 2. The quality or character of being infamous or of shameful vileness; (with plural) an infamous or utterly disgraceful act. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > baseness > [noun] shendfulness?c1225 vilety?c1225 vilehead1340 wretchedness1389 caitifness1393 caitifhedea1400 caitiftya1400 unnoblenessc1400 unnobilitya1425 unnobletya1425 vilitya1425 vileness1526 lousiness1530 infamya1535 baseness1548 vildness1597 shabbiness1711 piggery1854 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > infamy or notoriety > [noun] > quality or character of being infamous infamya1535 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > infamy or notoriety > [noun] > infamous act infamy1819 a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 65/2 With which infami he wold not haue his honoure stayned for anye crowne. a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 154 As if it were an Infamy To live, when he was doom'd to die. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. x. 256 The infamy of the peace was more deeply and more sensibly felt. 1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci iv. i. 60 Thro' infamies unheard of among men. 1859 F. C. L. Wraxall tr. J. E. Robert-Houdin Mem. v. 53 For the honour of my family let not this proof of my infamy be found here. 3. Law. The loss of all or certain of the rights of a citizen, consequent on conviction of certain crimes: see infamous adj. 3 (Cf. infamity n.) ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > withdrawal or loss of legal rights > [noun] > loss as consequence of conviction infamity1493 infamy1609 1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem i. xiv [Perjured jurors] sall tyne the benefite of the law, and of the land, and sall incurre the paine of infamie. 1702 Levinz's Reports III. 426 It is said, That Pillery although it infers Infamy by the Common Law, yet by the Canon and Civil Law..does not import Infamy except the cause for which it is inflicted be infamous. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1473 |
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