All 4 Uses of
infamous
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- He would think that the sacred place had become infamous, and would flee.†
Chpt 1.3.1 *
- It must also be stated that if a charitable soul of a bourgeois or ~bourgeoise~, in the rabble, had attempted to carry a glass of water to that wretched creature in torment, there reigned around the infamous steps of the pillory such a prejudice of shame and ignominy, that it would have sufficed to repulse the good Samaritan.†
Chpt 1.6.4
- I beheld you stripped and handled, half naked, by the infamous hands of the tormentor.†
Chpt 2.8.4
- You have forgotten a wretch who tried to abduct you one night, a wretch to whom you rendered succor on the following day on their infamous pillory.†
Chpt 2.9.3
Definition:
having an exceedingly bad reputation