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defamed, ppl. a.|dɪˈfeɪmd|
[f. prec. vb. + -ed.]
1.
†a. Brought to disgrace, dishonoured, of ill fame (obs.).
b. Attacked in reputation, slandered.
1474Caxton Chesse 4 The euyl lyf and diffamed of a kyng is the lyf of a cruel beste. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. 176 Maist vile and diffamit creaturis. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Matt. iii. 30 Souldyoures, a violent and a diffamed kynde of people. 1631Weever Anc. Fun. Mon. 146 None were to be admitted if of a defamed life. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 74 The defamed dead recovereth never. 1891Scrivener Fields & Cities 159 The defamed character of a fellow-workman.
2. Her. Said of a lion or other beast which is figured without a tail. [F. diffamé.]
1863Chambers' Encycl. s.v. Infamed 570 Defamed is an epithet applied to a lion or other animal which has lost its tail, the loss being supposed to disgrace or defame it. 1882Cussans Heraldry vi (ed. 3) 86.
Hence deˈfamedly adv.
1567in Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) III. 265 Let her [Queen Mary] know that the Earl of Moray never spoke defamedly of her for the death of her husband. |