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# infamy

«infamy» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **Very bad reputation, lasting shame** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun

### meaning for a pupil

Very bad reputation, lasting shame. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/infamy/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Proverbs warns that telling a neighbour's secret will bring shame that does not go away. Interpretation: Tradition teaches that gossip and revealing secrets harm both others and oneself.

### examples

- Lest he that heareth it revile thee, and thine infamy turn not away. (Writings PRO.25.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/infamy/#x1)

### note

A record of the Judaism dictionary, written from the corpus.

### In the corpora

- [Lest he that heareth it revile thee, and thine infamy turn not away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.731/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «infamy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/infamy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.