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noun

Infamy n. (pl. infamies)

Total loss of reputation; public disgrace; dishonor; ignominy; indignity. "The afflicted queen would not yield, and said she would not... submit to such infamy."

A quality which exposes to disgrace; extreme baseness or vileness; as, the infamy of an action.

(Law) That loss of character, or public disgrace, which a convict incurs, and by which he is at common law rendered incompetent as a witness. "Yesterday, Dec. 7, 1941 a day which will live in infamy,... "

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Infamy" Quotes from Famous Books

... men who voted for this cruel kidnapping law should not be forgotten. Until they repent, and do works meet for repentance, let their names stand high and conspicuous on the roll of infamy. Let the "slow-moving finger of scorn" point them out, when they walk among men, and the stings of shame, disappointment, and remorse continually visit them in secret, till they are forced to cry, "my punishment is greater than I can bear." As to the Southern men who voted for the law, they ...

— The Fugitive Slave Law and Its Victims - Anti-Slavery Tracts No. 18 • American Anti-Slavery Society

... be considered in that respect as a martyr in the public cause. The purity of your motives and dispositions is beyond the reach of malice; and truth and equity will not fail to award, to your calumniator infamy, and to you the love ...

— Caleb Williams - Things As They Are • William Godwin

... the heart of your father, and send your mother to her grave;—but it is not even on that that I may most insist. It is this,—that you would offend your God by the worst sin that a woman can commit, and cast yourself into a depth of infamy in which repentance before God is almost impossible, and from which escape before man ...

— The Small House at Allington • Anthony Trollope

... from Chouteau came into the room as they returned from the cemetery. Blair had been too much occupied in his dizzy thought to remember to hide his ill-gotten money, and on the white counterpane lay those proofs of Burroughs' infamy. ...

— A Man of Two Countries • Alice Harriman

... insult to his honor; and convinced of the fact by the agitation and dismay of the culprit, as well as by this refusal, the gentleman gave him at once into the hands of the police, who had no difficulty in finding the fatal mark of infamy. He was, indeed, an escaped convict, and the wealth with which he had dazzled the good provincials was the spoil of a recent robbery, undertaken by himself and some Parisian accomplices, and so cleverly managed as to have set at naught hitherto the best efforts of the police ...

— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 • Various

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