“above all Greek above all Roman fame” [Pope]; — cineri gloria sera
est [Lat][Martial]; “great is the glory for the strife is hard” [Wordsworth]; honor virtutis praemium [Lat][Cicero]; immensum gloria calcar habet [Lat][obs3][Ovid]; “the glory dies not and the grief is past” [Brydges]; vivit post funera virtus[Lat].
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#874. Disrepute.
— N. disrepute, discredit; ill repute, bad
repute,
bad name, bad odor, bad favor, ill name, ill odor,
ill favor; disapprobation &c. 932; ingloriousness,
derogation; abasement, debasement; abjectness &c.
adj.; degradation, dedecoration[obs3]; a long farewell
to all my greatness [Henry VIII]; odium, obloquy,
opprobrium, ignominy.
dishonor, disgrace;
shame, humiliation; scandal, baseness,
vileness[obs3]; turpitude &c. (improbity) 940[obs3];
infamy.
tarnish, taint, defilement,
pollution. stain, blot, spot, blur,
stigma, brand, reproach, imputation, slur.
crying shame, burning
shame; scandalum magnatum[Lat], badge of infamy,
blot in one’s escutcheon; bend sinister, bar
sinister; champain[obs3], point champain[obs3]; byword
of reproach; Ichabod.
argumentum ad verecundiam[Lat];
sense of shame &c. 879.
V. be inglorious &c.
adj.; incur disgrace &c. n.; have a bad name,
earn a bad name; put a halter round one’s neck,
wear a halter round one’s neck; disgrace oneself,
expose oneself.
play second fiddle;
lose caste; pale one’s ineffectual fire; recede
into the shade; fall from one’s high estate;
keep in the background &c. (modesty) 881; be conscious
of disgrace &c. (humility) 879; look blue, look foolish,
look like a fool; cut a poor figure, cut a sorry figure;
laugh on the wrong side of the mouth; make a sorry
face, go away with a flea in. one’s ear, slink
away.
cause shame &c. n.;
shame, disgrace, put to shame, dishonor; throw
dishonor upon, cast dishonor upon, fling dishonor
upon, reflect dishonor upon &c. n.; be a reproach
&c. n. to; derogate from.
tarnish, stain, blot
sully, taint; discredit; degrade, debase, defile;
beggar; expel &c. (punish) 972.
impute shame to, brand,
post, stigmatize, vilify, defame, slur, cast a
slur upon, hold up to shame, send to Coventry; tread
under foot, trample under foot; show up, drag through
the mire, heap dirt upon; reprehend &c. 932.
bring low, put down,
snub; take down a peg, take down a peg lower,
take down a peg or two.
obscure. eclipse, outshine,
take the shine out of; throw into the
shade, cast into the shade; overshadow; leave in the
background, put in the background; push into a corner,
put one’s nose out of joint; put out, put out
of countenance.
upset, throw off one’s
center; discompose, disconcert; put to the
blush &c. (humble) 879.


