▪ I. disfame, n. rare.
(dɪsˈfeɪm)
[f. dis- 9 + fame. In early use a. OF. des-, disfame, var. of def-, diffame: see diffame, defame.]
The opposite of fame; disrepute, reproach; defamation.
| c 1460 Play Sacram. 791 Now þ{supu} hast put me from duresse & dysfame. 1620 Wilkinson Coroners & Sherifes 11 If three men go together to make a disfame. 1859 Tennyson Merlin & V. 463 And what is Fame in life but half-disfame, And counter⁓changed with darkness? |
▪ II. † disˈfame, v. Obs.
[a. OF. des-, disfamer, var. of def-, diffamer: see defame.]
trans. To deprive of fame or honour; to bring into reproach or disrepute; to defame.
| a 1533 Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) Ll vij b, Great peril it is for the honourable, to be with theim that be disfamed. 1550 J. Coke Eng. & Fr. Heralds §1 (1877) 55 Perceyvynge the frenche heralde..in all thynges disfamying this most noble realme. |