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Quotation dates: 1493-1558
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Infamité, -itie, -até, n. [OF. infamité. App. not in English use.] Infamy.Common in the legal phrase under the pain(s) of infamity, etc. 1493 Acts Lords Auditors 176/1.
The saidis partiis are oblist to abid and vnderly [the judgement] … vnder the pain of periure and infamite 1510 Reg. Privy S. I. 315/1.
To impute or allege ony crime of infamite agane the said Adam 1533 Bell. Livy II. 68/4.
To remove all infamite and dishonoure that mycht be imput to Romane pepill 1533 Boece xi. vi. 415.
The king … was gevin to infamite … horribill and vile 1542 Reg. Morton II. 275.
For observing … the premissis bayth the saidis parteis ar oblist and suorne … vnder the pane of mansuering and infamite 1558 Aberd. B. Rec. I. 308.
The tennents … never to violat or abrogat the samen … vnder the paine of periurie, infamite, and inhabilitie
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