This week’s theme
Nouns that are also verbs

This week’s words
pinion
deacon
infame
scend
swan

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PRONUNCIATION:

(in-FAYM)

MEANING:

noun: A person having a bad reputation.
verb tr.: To defame: to attack the reputation or to disgrace.
adjective: Having a bad reputation.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin in- (not) + fama (reputation). Earliest documented use: for noun: 1413; for adjective: 1551; for verb: 1413.

USAGE:

“She had called him a coward, a sneak, an infame, a liar, childish, stubborn, and uncaring ‘you are a fool.’”
Conor Fitzgerald; The Namesake; Bloomsbury; 2012.

“So what if I am an evil person from ancient times? So what if I am infamed for thousands of years?”
Ying Xing; Supreme Immortal, Volume 2; Funstory; 2020.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: