All 3 Uses
notorious
in
Measure for Measure
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- If it please your honour, I am the poor duke's constable, and my name is Elbow; I do lean upon justice, sir, and do bring in here before your good honour two notorious benefactors.†
Scene 2.1
- Here is in our prison a common executioner, who in his office lacks a helper; if you will take it on you to assist him, it shall redeem you from your gyves; if not, you shall have your full time of imprisonment, and your deliverance with an unpitied whipping; for you have been a notorious bawd.†
Scene 4.2
- Here in the prison, father, There died this morning of a cruel fever One Ragozine, a most notorious pirate, A man of Claudio's years; his beard and head Just of his colour.†
Scene 4.3 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(notorious) well known for something bad
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)