Lexicographical Neighbors of Infaming
Literary usage of Infaming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1880)
"... hence, an infamous (or infaming) ballade sung, by an armed troope, under the
window of an old dotard married, the day before, onto a yong wanton, ..."
2. Memoirs of the Court of King James the First by Lucy Aikin (1822)
"It is therefore a thing monstrous to see a man love the child and hate the parents:
as, on the other part, the infaming and making odious of the parent is ..."
3. Dodd's Church History of England from the Commencement of the Sixteenth by Hugh Tootell (1840)
"... most necessary to the attaining of the same, viz., the use of our faculties,
for this only cause, that we laboured to free our good names from infaming ..."
4. Elementary Principles of the Roman Private Law by William Warwick Buckland (1912)
"... the action for compensation where a theft had been committed by a wife, or
other person against whom an infaming action could not be brought. ..."
5. Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex, in the Reigns of by Walter Bourchier Devereux (1853)
"... to the infaming " a nobleman's wife, and so near about Her Majesty, " yet she
was utterly condemned as too bad, both " unchaste and impudent, with, ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Slander and Libel: And Incidentally of Malicious by Thomas Starkie (1830)
"... and shall pay any paine arbitral at the will of the king's grace for the
infaming of sic ..."
7. A Search Made Into Matters of Religion by Francis Walsingham (1843)
"That other also, where he denieth the same Bishop Cranmer to have concurred to
the infaming of Queen Anne Bullen after her death, by pronouncing publicly ..."
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