Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.

Roget's Thesaurus eBook

Peter Roget
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 925 pages of information about Roget's Thesaurus.
nullus[Lat]; not to know him argues oneself unknown; none but himself could be his parallel, palmam qui meruit ferat [Lat][Nelson’s motto].
     “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. 

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