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Infamed vs Unfamed - What's the difference?

infamed | unfamed |

As a verb infamed

is past tense of infame.

As an adjective unfamed is

not famed.

infamed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (infame)

  • infame

    English

    Verb

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

    unfamed

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not famed.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1889, author=George Borrow, title=The Death of Balder, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Ere that, I'll perish here, unfamed , forgotten! }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=Edited by James Weldon Johnson, title=The Book of American Negro Poetry, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=O black slave singers, gone, forgot, unfamed , You--you alone, of all the long, long line Of those who've sung untaught, unknown, unnamed, Have stretched out upward, seeking the divine. }}