fame
noun
widespread reputation, especially of a favorable character; renown; public eminence.
fameless
-
a word derived from
fame.
Example Sentences
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Can it be that the spectator, already stupefied by an aimless plot, nameless characters and fameless songs, still has another hour or so to go?
From Time Magazine Archive
Lucid, pure, and calm and blameless Dawned on Gettysburg the day That should make the spot, once fameless, Known to nations far away.
From Dreams and Days: Poems by George Parsons Lathrop
Now must the storied Potomac Laurels forever divide; Now to the Sangamon fameless Give of its century's pride.
From The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President by Osborn H. (Osborn Hamiline) Oldroyd
And then, from fifty fameless years In quiet Illinois was sent A word that still the Atlantic hears, And Lincoln was the lord of his event.
From Abraham Lincoln by John Drinkwater
My father by thy sin is dead, And Ráma to the wood is fled; And of thy deed I bear the stain, And fameless in the world remain.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
