Meaning of herostratic fame | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative letter-case form of herostratic fame.
   alt-of, uncountable
2. Fame (or infamy) won through crime, destruction, or some other misdeed.
   uncountable

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Examples

“One of the staff of the Hôtel de Rambouillet, an unimportant author who acquired Herostratic fame by his attacks on Corneille, and by his bad heroic poem, La Pucelle.”

“The lack of self confidence have^([sic]) made me pursue Herostratic fame; always make myself look good in comparison to others, thus negating the value of others.”

“Jerzy Limon, novelist and professor of English drama at the University of Gdansk (Danzig), has spun an ironic tale of short-lived Herostratic fame in Poland after World War II.”

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