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ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

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Int. hail!, all hail!, ave!, viva!, vive! [Fr.], long life to!, banzai! [Jap.]; glory be to,<br />

honor be to?<br />

Phr. one's name being in every mouth, one's name living for ever; sic itur ad astra [Lat.],<br />

fama volat [Lat.], aut Caesar aut nullus [Lat.]; not to know him argues oneself unknown;<br />

none but himself could be his parallel, palmam qui meruit ferat [Lat.] [Nelson's motto].<br />

above all Greek above all Roman fame [Pope]; cineri gloria sera est [Lat.] [Martial];<br />

great is the glory for the strife is hard [Wordsworth]; honor virtutis praemium [Lat.]<br />

[Cicero]; immensum gloria calcar habet [Ovid]; the glory dies not and the grief is past<br />

[Brydges]; vivit post funera virtus [Lat.].<br />

874. Disrepute -- N. disrepute, discredit; ill repute, bad repute, bad name, bad odor, bad<br />

favor, ill name, ill odor, ill favor; disapprobation &c 932; ingloriousness, derogation;<br />

abasement, debasement; abjectness &c adj.; degradation, dedecoration † ; a long farewell<br />

to all my greatness [Henry VIII]; odium, obloquy, opprobrium, ignominy.<br />

dishonor, disgrace; shame, humiliation; scandal, baseness, vileness † ; turpitude &c<br />

(improbity) 940 [Obs.]; infamy.<br />

tarnish, taint, defilement, pollution.<br />

stain, blot, spot, blur, stigma, brand, reproach, imputation, slur.<br />

crying shame, burning shame; scandalum magnatum [Lat.], badge of infamy, blot in<br />

one's escutcheon; bend sinister, bar sinister; champain † , point champain † ; byword of<br />

reproach; Ichabod.<br />

argumentum ad verecundiam [Lat.]; sense of shame &c 879.<br />

V. be inglorious &c adj.; incur disgrace &c n.; have a bad name, earn a bad name; put a<br />

halter round one's neck, wear a halter round one's neck; disgrace oneself, expose oneself.<br />

play second fiddle; lose caste; pale one's ineffectual fire; recede into the shade; fall<br />

from one's high estate; keep in the background &c (modesty) 881; be conscious of<br />

disgrace &c (humility) 879; look blue, look foolish, look like a fool; cut a poor figure, cut<br />

a sorry figure; laugh on the wrong side of the mouth; make a sorry face, go away with a<br />

flea in.<br />

one's ear, slink away.<br />

cause shame &c n.; shame, disgrace, put to shame, dishonor; throw dishonor upon,<br />

cast dishonor upon, fling dishonor upon, reflect dishonor upon &c n.; be a reproach &c<br />

n.. to; derogate from.<br />

tarnish, stain, blot sully, taint; discredit; degrade, debase, defile; beggar; expel &c<br />

(punish) 972.<br />

impute shame to, brand, post, stigmatize, vilify, defame, slur, cast a slur upon, hold up<br />

to shame, send to Coventry; tread under foot, trample under foot; show up, drag through<br />

the mire, heap dirt upon; reprehend &c 932.<br />

bring low, put down, snub; take down a peg, take down a peg lower, take down a peg<br />

or two.<br />

obscure.<br />

eclipse, outshine, take the shine out of; throw into the shade, cast into the shade;<br />

overshadow; leave in the background, put in the background; push into a corner, put one's<br />

nose out of joint; put out, put out of countenance.<br />

upset, throw off one's center; discompose, disconcert; put to the blush &c (humble)<br />

879.

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