Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In heraldry: Same as
defamed . - Turned toward the sinister: said of an animal, especially a beast of prey, used as a bearing.
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Examples
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Amongst whom there was one that threatened to cut off my legs with his hatchet, because by my noyse I diffamed his chastity, but the other regarding more their owne profit than my utility, thought best to spare my life, because I might carry home the goddesse.
The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius
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In the course of the treatise he affirms, "that barnes, or wiues, or neuer so diffamed persons, may serue for sufficient witnesses and proofes in such trialls; for who but Witches can be prooves, and so witnesses of the doings of Witches?"
Lives of the Necromancers William Godwin 1796
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But in my opinion, since in a mater of treason against the Prince, barnes or wiues, or neuer so diffamed persons, may of our law serue for sufficient witnesses and proofes.
Daemonologie. King of England James I 1595
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Amongst whom there was one that threatened to cut off my legs with his hatchet, because by my noyse I diffamed his chastity, but the other regarding more their owne profit than my utility, thought best to spare my life, because I might carry home the goddesse.
The Golden Asse 1566
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"You yourself, moreover, among other grave enormities and abominable crimes whereof you are guilty, and for which you are noted and diffamed, have, in the first place, admitted a certain married woman, named
Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc James Anthony Froude 1856
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