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dignity. The afflicted queen would not yield, and said she would not . . . submit to such infamy. Bp. Burnet.

Public disgrace or stigma; infamy; loss of civil rights. Mitford.

To stain; to obscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy. For so exceeding shone his glistring ray, That Phattaint. Spenser. Lest she with blame her honor should attaint. Spenser.

To stain with infamy; to disgrace. Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood. Rowe.

A mark put upon criminals with a hot iron. Hence: Any mark of infamy or vice; a stigma. The brand of private vice. Channing.

); as, he covered himself with glory. The powers that covered themselves with everlasting infamy by the partition of Poland. Brougham.

Something used to conceal infamy. [Obs.] Dryden.

cament; a difficult choice or position. A strong dilemma in a desperate case! To act with infamy, or quit the place. Swift. Horns of a dilemma, alternatives, each of which is equally difficult of encountering.

Meanness; sordidness. Honors . . . thrown away upon dirt and infamy. Melmoth.

To expose to infamy; to blacken. I'll gibbet up his name. Oldham.

Public disgrace or dishonor; reproach; infamy. Their generals have been received with honor after their defeat; yours with ignominy after conquest. Addison. Vice begins in mistake, and ends in ignominy. Rambler. Ignominy is the infliction of such evil as is made dishonorable, or the deprivation of such good as is made…

g a reputation of the worst kind; held in abhorrence; guilty of something that exposes to infamy; base; notoriously vile; detestable; as, an infamous traitor; an infamous perjurer. False errant knight, infamous, and forsworn. Spenser.

The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.

To soil with mud or foul matter. Smirched thus and mired with infamy. Shak.

it our mystery. Shak. And that which is the noblest mystery Brings to reproach and common infamy. Spenser.

foreshowing; a foreboding; a presage; an augury. Bid go with evil omen, and the brand Of infamy upon my name. Milton.

Disgrace; infamy; reproach mingled with contempt; abusive language. Being both dramatic author and dramatic performer, he found himself heir to a twofold opprobrium. De Quincey.

quench that fire. Shak. The supposition of the lady's death Will quench the wonder of her infamy. Shak.

To cry aloud; to proclaim loudly. This last action will roar thy infamy. Ford.

Disgraceful to reputation; bringing shame or infamy; opprobrious; as, a scandalous crime or vice.