Pheme

Trial by media, by pheme, has always had a horrible potency. ❋ Bettany Hughes (2010)

For rumour [the Greek pheme, via fama in Latin, gives us our word fame] is an evil thing; by nature she's a light weight to lift up, yes, but heavy to carry and hard to put down again. ❋ Bettany Hughes (2010)

The word can mean (depending on where you decide ‘blas’ comes from) either an injurious statement (pheme: utterance; blas possibly from blastikos: hurtful) or an ignorant statement (blax: stupid). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Here Aristotle was on the point of discover - ing the difference between base and derivation mor - pheme, but he never developed the idea any further. ❋ ALVAR ELLEG (1968)

Blasphemy (Greek blaptein, "to injure", and pheme, "reputation") signifies etymologically gross irreverence towards any person or thing worthy of exalted esteem. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The local element, however (for Hellenic oracles essentially localize divination), and the practice of interpreting divine voices as heard in wind, or tree, or water (pheme theon; ossa, omphe Dios — Zeus was panompsaios cf. the Italian fauni, karmentes) were rooted in Greek or pre-Greek religion. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

This _pheme_ occurred to me when, after more than half a century, I read again Amédée Achard's _Belle-Rose_. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

Hughes puts his fame in its Greek context, where the word's root, pheme, means talk. ❋ Unknown (2010)

This is that faith, to which only the gospel annexes salva - tion; which the blind and unconverted blas - pheme, as though it were possible to have such an abiding principle and not to act according to it. ❋ Gilpin, Joseph (1812)

Greek pheme, via fama in Latin, gives us our word fame] is an evil thing; by nature she's a light weight to lift up, yes, but heavy to carry and hard to put down again. ❋ Unknown (2010)

t Author us poor worms deflroy, then a Hp of tranftent joy ver in a fmiling mood; nfeUes; or hov cou'd he be good? pheme who blacker frhemes fuppofc ❋ Unknown (1791)

youre such a [pheme]... [ouch]! my pheme! [ect]... ❋ Cagedlemp (2010)