"infamita" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: infamitas [plural]
Etymology: From Italian infamità. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|it|infamità}} Italian infamità Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} infamita (countable and uncountable, plural infamitas)
  1. A most heinous act against one's own family, or against family life in general. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-infamita-en-noun-F0vXimxf Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1968, Mario Puzo, The Godfather, page 386:",
          "text": "I don’t want any [drugs] near schools, I don’t want any of it sold to children. That is an infamita.",
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          "ref": "1977, Luigi Giorgio Barzini, O America, When You and I Were Young, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 244:",
          "text": "And why, if he had betrayed his own, did he not turn to his enemies for protection, as all traitors do? I imagined he must have committed one of those unforgivable Sicilian crimes, an infamità so serious that everybody must condemn him, his family, his allies as well as his enemies; one of those mysterious violations of the unwritten code to punish which rivalries, feuds, and gang wars were temporarily suspended; […]",
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