Eame vs Fame - What's the difference?
eame | fame |
(label) (A form of) (an uncle).
*1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), Book IV, xlix:
*:Three times the shape of my dear mother came, / Pale, sad, dismay'd, to warn me in my dream: // Alas! how far transformed from the same, / Whose eyes shone erst like Titan's glorious beam.— // Daughter, she says, fly, fly, behold thy dame, / Foreshows the treasons of thy wretched eame .
:(Spenser)
(Webster 1913) What is said or reported; gossip, rumour.
* 1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) , Book 1, ll. 651-4:
* 2012 , Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex , Penguin 2013, p. 23:
One's reputation.
The state of being famous or well-known and spoken of.
* (William Shakespeare)
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To make (someone or something) famous.
As a noun eame
is (label) (a form of) (an uncle).As an adjective fame is
(in combination ) having a specified reputation.eame
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(en noun)fame
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(-)- There went a fame in Heav'n that he ere long / Intended to create, and therein plant / A generation, whom his choice regard / Should favour […].
- If the accused could produce a specified number of honest neighbours to swear publicly that the suspicion was unfounded, and if no one else came forward to contradict them convincingly, the charge was dropped: otherwise the common fame was held to be true.
- I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited.