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Definition of Notoriety
1. Noun. The state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality.
Definition of Notoriety
1. n. The quality or condition of being notorious; the state of being generally or publicly known; -- commonly used in an unfavorable sense; as, the notoriety of a crime.
Definition of Notoriety
1. Noun. The condition of being infamous or notorious ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Notoriety
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Notoriety
Literary usage of Notoriety
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1916)
"notoriety. As pointed out in the early part of ant is not equivalent to saying
that they lewdly and lasciviously associated and cohabited together, ..."
2. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Or, A Commentary by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham (1794)
"... immediately after the execution of the bargain and fale, without any entry,
attornment, or other aft of notoriety ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1903)
"A survey itself, which had not acquired notoriety, ia not a good call for an
entry ; but when the survey has been made conformable to the entry, ..."
4. Nature by Norman Lockyer, Nature Publishing Group (1875)
"It is a matter of notoriety that the waters of the Amu carry in suspension an
enormous quantity of mud and sand, and it is to the deposition, in its old bed ..."
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