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Definition of Infamize
1. v. t. To make infamous; to defame.
Definition of Infamize
1. Verb. (transitive) To make infamous; to defame or smear. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Infamize
1. infamise [v INFAMIZED, INFAMIZING, INFAMIZES] - See also: infamise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Infamize
Literary usage of Infamize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"3,'orth, Examen, p. began To infamize the poor old drunken man. Sylvester, The
Ai-ke, 577. INFANCY, inexpressiveness ; silence : used with strict ..."
2. Reports of Selected Civil and Criminal Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals by Kentucky Court of Appeals, William Pope Duvall Bush (1871)
"A WITNESS SHOULD NOT BE COMPELLED TO infamize HIMSELF.—The testimony of a willing
witness that he had illicit intercourse with the plaintiff's daughter, ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1836)
"... would, to use the expression of the Morning Chronicle, " infamize" the men
now in office to the end of time. But, unprincipled and reckless as they are, ..."
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