| 单词 |
defamous |
| 释义 |
† defamous, a. Obs. [a. AF. deffamous, OF. type *deffameux, f. diffame n., defame: cf. famous, infamous. (The stress varies in the metrical examples.)] a. Infamous, disgraceful. b. Defamatory.
c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode i. lii. (1869) 32 No sinne so fowl, so defamowse. c1430Lydg. Bochas iii. x. (1554) 84 a, A word defamous, most foule in al languages. 1500–20Dunbar Poems (1893) lix. 10 With rycht defamowss speiche off lordis. 1557North Gueuara's Diall Pr. 61 b/2 To haue set on his graue so defamous a title. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. II. Kk j (N.), There was a knighte that spake defamous words of him. Hence defamously (diff-) adv., defamatorily.
1557R. Allerton in S. R. Maitland Ess. Reform. 556 (D.) Whereupon should your lordship gather or say of me so diffamously? |

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