Noun

(-)

What is said or reported; gossip, rumour.

* 1667 , (John Milton), (Paradise Lost) , Book 1, ll. 651-4:

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 […].

* 2012 , Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex , Penguin 2013, p. 23:

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.

One's reputation.

The state of being famous or well-known and spoken of.

* (William Shakespeare)

I find thou art no less than fame hath bruited.

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Noun

(en noun)

(legal, historical) A woman.

* 1825 , Westminster Hall: Or, Professional Relics and Anecdotes of the Bar, Bench and Woolsack , Henry Roscoe and Thomas Roscoe

TRESPASS FOR INTERMEDDLING WITH A FEME .

There are some curious decisions in the old books regarding this point of law, with which it may be useful to be acquainted. In Br. Ab. Tresp.'' 40, it is said that a man may aid a feme''' who falls upon the ground from a horse, and so if she be sick, and the same if her baron would murder her. And the same ''per Rede'' if the '''feme''' would kill herself. And ''per Fineux'' a man may conduct a '''feme''' on a pilgrimage. So where a '''feme''' is going to market, it is lawful for another to suffer her to ride behind him on his horse to market. (''Br. Ab. Tresp.'' 207.) And if a '''feme''' says that she is in jeopardy of her life by her baron, and prays him (a stranger) to carry her to a justice of the peace, he may lawfully do it. (''Br. Ab. Tresp.'' 207.) But where any '''feme is out of the way, it is not lawful for a man to take her to his house, if she was not in danger of being lost in the night, or being drowned with water. (''Br. Ab. Tresp. 213.)