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Enfame vs Infame - What's the difference?

enfame | infame |

As verbs the difference between enfame and infame

is that enfame is to make famous while infame is to defame; to make infamous.

enfame

English

Verb

(enfam)
  • (archaic) to make famous
  • *{{quote-book, 1880, title=, author=Richard Burton (translator)
    • , passage=Him, for his exploits exc'ellent to reward, God gave in shortest space a gallant son, whose arm to 'noble and enfame was fain the warlike name of Lusitania's reign.}}

    infame

    English

    Verb

    (infam)
  • (obsolete) To defame; to make infamous.
    • (Milton)
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Livia is infamed for the poisoning of her husband.
    (Webster 1913) ----