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Definition of Infamy
1. Noun. A state of extreme dishonor. "The name was a by-word of scorn and opprobrium throughout the city"
Generic synonyms: Dishonor, Dishonour
Antonyms: Fame
Derivative terms: Infamous, Opprobrious
2. Noun. Evil fame or public reputation.
Generic synonyms: Discredit, Disrepute
Antonyms: Fame
Derivative terms: Infamous
Definition of Infamy
1. n. Total loss of reputation; public disgrace; dishonor; ignominy; indignity.
Definition of Infamy
1. Noun. The state of being infamous. ¹
2. Noun. A reputation as being evil. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Infamy
1. the state of being infamous [n -MIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Infamy
Literary usage of Infamy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Jeremy Bentham by Jeremy Bentham, John Bowring (1843)
"Exposure " infamy must attach somewhere." To this effect was a dictum ... It is
in the first case alone that infamy can witl ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Samuel March Phillipps, Andrew Amos (1838)
"A- third cause of incompetency is infamy of character, proceeding from conviction
of certain offences. The conviction of an infamous crime, ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, John Bagnell Bury (1897)
"These glorious achievements were carefully recorded in the public acts of the
empire; and, that he might omit no circumstance of infamy, he received from ..."
4. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, George Sharwood, Barron Field (1866)
"Which last is the only method of supporting an objection to the former class :
for no man is to be examined to prove liia own infamy.14 And no counsel, ..."
5. The Continental Legal History Series by Association of American Law Schools (1916)
"infamy also resulted from actions in tort, in which the defendant avoided the
passing of judgment against him by the payment of money. ..."
6. A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the United States by Francis Wharton (1874)
"In Ohio, infamy goes by statute to credibility and not to competency. d3 § 759.
(a.) Home convictions. — The extent and meaning of the term crimen falsi is ..."
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