To disgrace; to bring into disrepute.
My guilt thy growing virtues did defame; / My blackness blotted thy unblemish'd name.
To charge; to accuse (someone) of an offence.
Rebecca is […] defamed of sorcery practised on the person of a noble knight.
To harm or diminish the reputation of; to disparage.
to defame somebody
Disgrace, dishonour.
And all the sparks that may bring unto flame / Hate betwixt man and wife, or breed defame.
Defamation; slander, libel.
Synonym of defamed.
From Middle English defamen, from Anglo-Norman defamer (verb), defame (noun), and its source, Latin diffāmō, from fāma (“fame; rumour; reputation”).
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