He does not suffer the gods to be defamed by false crimes; the gods command those same crimes to be celebrated in their own honour.
The secular authority is also required to inflict torture on those heretics who refused to confess or inculpate their confederates, to see to the exaction of fines and destruction of heretics' houses, to keep lists of those defamed of heresy.
Notwithstanding, of life she was chaste and honest, defamedwith none, although she was pursued of many.
I've been defamed often enough, I hope, to be above minding it.
His former friends, whom he seemed to deny and whom he allowed to be defamed by the anonymous author of the pamphlet, were greatly grieved by this.
There he put on the stage a satirical comedy: La Femme comme il n'y en a plus, in which he defamed all the women of his town.
He was accused, in his attempted impeachment, of havingdefamed the character of the English clergy.
Was it not sufficient for a tirannous husband to be reuenged of hys shame, and to kill the party which had defamed him, without vsing so furious Anotamie vpon a dead body, and wherein there was no longer feeling?
How Sir Suppinabiles told Sir Tristram how he was defamed in the court of king Arthur, and of Sir Lamorak.
For ever this Sir Corsabrin defamed her, and named her that she was out of her mind; and thus he let her that she might not be married.
A person unjustly defamed as guilty of incontinence could clear himself by a voluntary process of compurgation--that is, by the sworn testimony of reputable friends.
At the same time he charges the inquisitor not to make arrests without good cause, "for in such things, besides the charge on your conscience, the Holy Office is much defamed and its officials despised.
All but two were defamed for improper relations with women; all accepted presents; all made extra and illegal charges; all neglected their duties and most of them quarrelled with each other.
But the fact remains that, in the heat of passion, without forethought, without regard to your patriotic ancestry, you have wantonly defamed your country and heaped insults on her flag.
And now it has come to this, that my grandson has trodden under his feet the flag for which his gallant ancestors fought, and has defamed the country for which they shed their blood.
I do not demand that he should allow his name to be defamed with impunity in silence; but I would like that he might abstain from contemptuous reproaches of those men whose memory ought to be held in honourable esteem by all the godly.
Another hath these, but renome of peoples praysing may he nat have; overal he is hated and defamed of thinges right foule.
He held out his hand over the grave, saying: "God be again my witness that I swear eternal war against the King who tried to have me murdered; to the nobles who defamed my daughter; to the priests who refused sepulture to my wife!
The Queen, after seven years, unfruitful wedlock, gives birth to children whose paternity is contested, so that she is defamed as mother of the Crown Prince, and dishonored as a woman in the case of the Diamond Necklace.
And when this was done, the emperor called unto him his steward, and said, "How may I rid this varlet from the world, that thus hath defamed me?
This institution of marriage has beendefamed in our day, and influences are abroad trying to turn this earth into a Turkish harem or a great Salt Lake City.
Aye, when you realize that the sacred and divine institution is being caricatured and defamed by clandestine marriages and escapades all over the land, does there not seem a call for such discussion?
I am persuaded that in sending it me, you did not intend an insult; but you do not know, or have forgotten, that I have the honor to be the friend of a respectable man, who is shamefully defamed and calumniated in this libel.
Finally, failing of success, after having done me all the injury they could, and defamed me to the utmost of their power, they made a merit of their impotence, by boasting of their goodness in suffering me to stay in their country.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "defamed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
