Defame vs Disfame - What's the difference?
defame | disfame | Related terms |
To harm or diminish the reputation of.
To render infamous; to bring into disrepute.
* Dryden
To publish a libel about.
(archaic) To charge; to accuse.
* Rebecca is defamed of sorcery practised on the person of a noble knight.
Disfame is a related term of defame.
As a verb defame
is to harm or diminish the reputation of.As a noun disfame is
disrepute.defame
English
Verb
(defam)- to defame somebody
- My guilt thy growing virtues did defame ; / My blackness blotted thy unblemish'd name.