INFAMY

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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

2.
n.

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

3.
n.

That loss of character, or public disgrace, which a convict incurs, and by which he is at common law rendered incompetent as a witness.


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