fame
noun
widespread reputation, especially of a favorable character; renown; public eminence.
fameless
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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
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
He died at Boulogne, France, in poverty, after nearly thirty years of exiled and fameless life.
From Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 6 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
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
