Renown vs Infamy - What's the difference?
renown | infamy |
Fame; celebrity; wide recognition.
* Dryden
* 1922 , (James Joyce), '' Episode 12, ''The Cyclops
Reports of nobleness or exploits; praise.
* Shakespeare
The state of being infamous.
A reputation as being evil.
As nouns the difference between renown and infamy
is that renown is fame; celebrity; wide recognition while infamy is the state of being infamous.renown
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Noun
(-)- Nor envy we thy great renown , nor grudge thy victory.
- There sleep the mighty dead as in life they slept, warriors and princes of high renown .
- This famous duke of Milan, / Of whom so often I have heard renown .
See also
* renownedinfamy
English
Noun
(infamies)- "Infamy', '''infamy - they've all got it in for me!" - Kenneth Williams as Julius Caesar in ''Carry On Cleo
- "A date which will live in infamy " - Franklin D. Roosevelt in response to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour