infamizev.
/ˈɪnfəmʌɪz/ 1.
a. transitive. To render infamous; to brand with infamy; to stigmatize with; = infame v. 1.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > infamy or notoriety > make infamous [verb (transitive)]
infame1413
baffle1548
infamize1596
infamouze1628
1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. E4 Another age..may baffull and infamize my name when I am in heauen.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Zapolya Prel i. 9 Riotous slanderers leagued To infamize the name of the king's brother With a lie black as Hell.
1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. II. v. x. §2. 491 The moral sense of mankind very rightly infamizes those who resist an otherwise just claim on the ground of usury.
b. To render infamous in law.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal right > withdrawal or loss of legal rights > take away a right [verb (transitive)] > deprive of rights by conviction
infamize1827
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > infamy or notoriety > make infamous [verb (transitive)] > make legally infamous
infamize1827
1827 Mill in Bentham's Rat. Jud. Evid. V. 746 All persons..who have suffered any afflictive or infamizing punishment.
a1859 J. Austin Lect. Jurispr. (1873) I. xxiii. 472 Certain obligations..are sanctioned by penalties which are purely infamising: by a declaration pronounced by competent authority, that the party shall be held infamous or merits infamy.
1865 J. S. Mill in Westm. Rev. 28 18.
2. To defame; = infame v. 2.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > slander or calumniate [verb (transitive)]
to say or speak shame of, on, byc950
teleeOE
sayOE
to speak evil (Old English be) ofc1000
belie?c1225
betell?c1225
missayc1225
skandera1300
disclanderc1300
wrenchc1300
bewrayc1330
bite1330
gothele1340
slanderc1340
deprave1362
hinderc1375
backbite1382
blasphemec1386
afamec1390
fame1393
to blow up?a1400
defamea1400
noise1425
to say well (also evil, ill, etc.) of (also by)1445
malignc1450
to speak villainy of1470
infame1483
injury1484
painta1522
malicea1526
denigrate1526
disfamea1533
misreporta1535
sugill?1539
dishonest?c1550
calumniate1554
scandalize1566
ill1577
blaze1579
traduce1581
misspeak1582
blot1583
abuse1592
wronga1596
infamonize1598
vilify1598
injure?a1600
forspeak1601
libel1602
infamize1605
belibel1606
calumnize1606
besquirt1611
colly1615
scandala1616
bedirt1622
soil1641
disfigurea1643
sycophant1642
spatter1645
sugillate1647
bespattera1652
bedung1655
asperse1656
mischieve1656
opprobriatea1657
reflect1661
dehonestate1663
carbonify1792
defamate1810
mouth1810
foul-mouth1822
lynch1836
rot1890
calumny1895
ding1903
bad-talk1938
norate1938
bad-mouth1941
monster1967
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 406 Cham that impudently vewd His Fathers shame, and..thus began To infamize the poore old drunken man.
1651 J. Saint-Amard tr. F. Micanzio Life Father Paul sig. L5v This Cardinal did allwaies use to infamize [1676 infamise] the father for his publisht writings with odious appellations.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Ess. Own Times (1850) III. 957 Who infamizes another man as an Apostate and Renegado.
1831 Examiner 449/2 How is the claim to be stated without infamizing the claimant?
Derivatives
ˈinfamizing n. and adj. (see sense 1b).
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society > law > legal right > withdrawal or loss of legal rights > [adjective] > involving loss of rights by conviction
infamous1548
capital1555
infamizing1827
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > [noun]
teleeOE
folk-leasinga1000
tolec1000
wrayingc1000
missaw?c1225
slanderc1290
disclanderc1300
famationc1325
noisec1325
skander1338
missaying1340
misspeecha1375
slanderingc1380
biting1382
defaminga1400
filtha1400
missaya1400
obloquya1438
oblocution?a1439
juroryc1440
defamationa1450
defamea1450
forspeaking1483
depravinga1500
defamya1513
injury?1518
depravation1526
maledictiona1530
abusion?1530
blasphemation1533
infamation1533
insectationa1535
calumning1541
calumniation?1549
abuse1559
calumnying1563
calumny1564
belying?1565
illingc1575
scandalizing1575
misparlance?1577
blot1587
libelling1587
scandal1596
traducement1597
injurying1604
deprave1610
vilifying1611
noisec1613
disfame1620
sycophancy1622
aspersion1633
disreport1640
medisance1648
bollocking1653
vilification1653
sugillation1654
blasphemya1656
traduction1656
calumniating1660
blaspheming1677
aspersing1702
blowing1710
infamizing1827
malignation1836
mud-slinging1858
mud-throwing1864
denigration1868
mud-flinging1876
dénigrement1883
malignment1885
injurious falsehood1907
mud-sling1919
bad-mouthing1939
bad mouth1947
trash-talking1974
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > infamy or notoriety > [adjective] > bringing infamy > entailing legal infamy
infamousa1575
infamizing1827
1827Infamizing [see sense 1b].
1841 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) VI. 197 Whatever baseness, whatever cruelty, whatever infamizing of the national character [etc.].
ˈinfamizer n. a defamer.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > slander or calumny > [noun] > one who slanders
missayer1340
slandererc1340
jurorc1380
third tonguea1382
defamerc1425
malignerc1425
disclanderer1447
praterc1500
evil-sayer1530
ill sayera1533
infamera1533
belier1541
sycophant1548
calumniatorc1550
disgracer1570
infamator1571
depraver1584
calumnier1586
libeller1589
infamizer1593
maldisant1598
oblocutor1603
traducer1603
villainizer1605
vilifier1611
calumner1614
scandallerc1620
scandalizer1632
blackmouth1642
deflowerer1645
famer1646
defamator1658
reflector1681
reflecter1686
asperser1702
bedirtera1742
libellist1794
mud-flinger1839
denigrator1875
mud-slinger1876
tar-brusher1884
libellant-
1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 180 Vnlineall vsurpers of indgement, infamizers of vice.
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