Infamous
Bible Usage:
- infamous used once.
- Bible Reference: Ezekiel 22:5
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: No
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H2931 Used 1 time
IN'FAMOUS, adjective [Latin infamis; infamo, to defame; in and fama, fame.]
1. Of ill report, emphatically; having a reputation of the worst kind; publicly branded with odium for vice of guilt; base; scandalous; notoriously vile; used of persons; as an infamous liar; an infamous rake or gambler.
2. Odious; detestable; held in abhorrence; that renders a person infamous rake or gambler.
3. Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime. An infamous person cannot be a witness.
IN'FAMOUSLY, adverb In a manner or degree to render infamous; scandalously; disgracefully; shamefully.
1. With open reproach.
IN'FAMOUSNESS
IN'FAMY, noun [Latin infamia; in and fama, report.]
1. Total loss of reputation; public disgrace. Avoid the crimes and vices which expose men to infamy.
2. Qualities which are detested and despised; qualities notoriously bad and scandalous; as the infamy of an action.
3. In law, that loss of character or public disgrace which a convict incurs, and by which a person is rendered incapable of being a witness or juror.