Bible Dictionary: Infamy

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) Total loss of reputation; public disgrace; dishonor; as, a day that will live in infamy.

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.

Greek

3856. paradeigmatizo -- to set forth as an example
... expose, make a public example. From para and deigmatizo; to show alongside (the
public), ie Expose to infamy -- make a public example, put to an open shame. ...
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819. atimia -- dishonor
... dishonor, reproach, shame, vile. From atimos; infamy, ie (subjectively) comparative
indignity, (objectively) disgrace -- dishonour, reproach, shame, vile. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

1681. dibbah -- whispering, defamation, evil report
... defaming, evil report, infamy, slander. From dabab (in the sense of furtive motion);
slander -- defaming, evil report, infamy, slander. see HEBREW dabab. ...
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Library

The Inferior Gods, Whose Names are not Associated with Infamy ...
... Chapter 4."The Inferior Gods, Whose Names are Not Associated with Infamy, Have Been
Better Dealt with Than the Select Gods, Whose Infamies are Celebrated. ...
/.../augustine/city of god/chapter 4 the inferior gods whose.htm

Whether the Priest Ought to Deny the Body of Christ to the Sinner ...
... seeking it. For Christ's precept is not to be set aside for the sake of
avoiding scandal or on account of infamy to anyone. But ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether the priest ought to.htm

Article xxiii (xi): of the Marriage of Priests.
... Despite the great infamy of their defiled celibacy, the adversaries have the
presumption not only to defend the pontifical law by the wicked and false pretext ...
/.../the apology of the augsburg confession/part 28 article xxiii xi .htm

Whether all Perjury is a Mortal Sin?
... Objection 3: Further, according to the Law a man incurs infamy through
committing perjury (VI, qu. i, cap. Infames). Now it would ...
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Jesus' Unrequited Friendships.
... one has eaten day after day, in the blessing of whose friendship one has rested
for months and years"are there words black enough to paint the infamy of such ...
/.../personal friendships of jesus/chapter ix jesus unrequited friendships.htm

Now in Vergilius and in Many of that Time the Human Heart had ...
... make out the name, but I was able to recall how the great father had said to me,
once, that when a man secretly puts blame upon another, the infamy he charges ...
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(Of Marriages among Blood-Relations, and of those who are Born of ...
... And we too, following our fathers, and keeping close by their footsteps, brand such
with infamy, and hold them to be infamous, because they are sprinkled with ...
/.../unknown/the decretals/iv of marriages among blood-relations.htm

(Of those who Ought not to be Admitted to Prefer an Accusation, or ...
... The laws of the world, indeed, put such persons to death; but we, with whom mercy
has the first place, receive them under the mark of infamy to repentance. ...
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Of the Right of Bishops not to be Accused or Hurt by Detraction.
... In like manner is it decided to be with those whose faith and life and liberty are
unknown, or who are marked with the stains of infamy, or entangled in the ...
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That the Judgment of God and Men as to Human Acts of violence, is ...
... But amidst these offences of infamy and violence, and so many iniquities, are the
sins of men who are, on the whole, making progress; which, by those who judge ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/chapter ix that the judgment of.htm

Thesaurus

Infamy (8 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Total loss of reputation; public disgrace; dishonor;
as, a day that will live in infamy. ...Infamy (8 Occurrences). ...
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Infamous (2 Occurrences)
... 1. (a.) Of very bad report; having a public reputation Of the worst kind; held in
abhorrence; guilty Of something that exposes to infamy; base; notoriously vile ...
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Brand (4 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) A mark put upon criminals with a hot iron. Hence: Any mark of infamy or
vice; a stigma. ... 9. (vt) Fig.: To fix a mark of infamy, or a stigma, upon. 10. ...
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Object (76 Occurrences)
... to throw against." So with the meaning "to charge with" in The Wisdom of Solomon
2:12, the King James Version "He objecteth to our infamy the transgressing of ...
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Levi (79 Occurrences)
... worship! Levi shared with Simeon the infamy incurred at Shechem by the
treacherous slaughter of the Shechemites (Genesis 34). Jacob's ...
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Infancy (2 Occurrences)

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Ignominy (7 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Public disgrace or dishonor; reproach; infamy.
2. (n.) An act deserving disgrace; an infamous act. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Reuben (73 Occurrences)
... His birthright was forfeited by a deed of peculiar infamy (Genesis 35:22), and
as far as we know his tribe never took the lead in Israel. ...
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Maachah (19 Occurrences)
... Possibly she acted as regent during his minority. Ultimately, she was degraded by
him for an act of peculiar infamy (1 Kings 15:13 2 Chronicles 15:16). ...
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Maacah (30 Occurrences)
... Possibly she acted as regent during his minority. Ultimately, she was degraded by
him for an act of peculiar infamy (1 Kings 15:13 2 Chronicles 15:16). ...
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Bible Concordance

Infamy (8 Occurrences)

Leviticus 19:29 Do not profane thy daughter, to give her up to whoredom; lest the land practise whoredom, and the land become full of infamy.
(DBY)

Leviticus 20:14 And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is infamy: they shall burn him and them with fire, that there be no infamy among you.
(DBY)

2 Samuel 13:12 And she said to him, No, my brother, do not humble me; for no such thing is done in Israel: do not this infamy.
(DBY)

Job 31:11 For this is an infamy; yea, it is an iniquity to be judged by the judges:
(DBY)

Proverbs 25:10 Lest he that heareth it put thee to shame, and thine infamy turn not away.
(KJV JPS ASV WBS)

Isaiah 44:11 Truly, all those who make use of secret arts will be put to shame, and their words of power are only words of men: let them all come forward together; they will all be in fear and be put to shame.
(See NIV)

Jeremiah 29:23 because they have committed infamy in Israel, and have committed adultery with their neighbours' wives, and have spoken words of falsehood in my name, which I had not commanded them: and I am he that knoweth, and am witness, saith Jehovah.
(DBY)

Ezekiel 36:3 Therefore prophesy and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because they have made you desolate, and swallowed you up on every side, that ye might be a possession unto the residue of the heathen, and ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people:
(KJV WBS)

Subtopics

Infamy

Related Terms

Infamous (2 Occurrences)

Brand (4 Occurrences)

Object (76 Occurrences)

Levi (79 Occurrences)

Infancy (2 Occurrences)

Ignominy (7 Occurrences)

Reuben (73 Occurrences)

Maachah (19 Occurrences)

Maacah (30 Occurrences)