All 4 Uses
infamy
in
Dante's Inferno
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- And he to me, "This miserable measure the wretched souls maintain of those who lived without infamy and without praise.†
Canto 1-3
- And on the edge of the broken chasm lay stretched out the infamy of Crete, that was conceived in the false cow.†
Canto 10-12 *
- After the fire had somewhat roared according to its fashion, the sharp point moved this way and that, and then gave forth this breath: "If I could believe that my answer might be to a person who should ever return unto the world, this flame would stand without more quiverings; but inasmuch as, if I hear truth, never from this depth did any living man return, without fear of infamy I answer thee.†
Canto 25-27
- But, if my words are to be seed that may bear fruit of infamy for the traitor whom I gnaw, thou shalt see me speak and weep at once.†
Canto 31-34
Definitions:
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(1)
(infamy) famous for something that is bad; or an extremely bad event
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)