Word of the Day: FAMATION

ETYMOLOGY
? aphetic from defamation (n.)

EXAMPLE 1
“…Ich wile þat y ben hanged & drawe
Boute y defende me wiþ þe lawe
Of þis famacioun,
Þat þow seist y scholde selle
Me lordes sone þat ich of telle,
Þat men clepede Reinbroun …”

From: The Romance of Guy of Warwick
The first or 14th-century version, c1325

EXAMPLE 2
The well-known actor brought a legal action against the magazine for famation of character.