[ad. Gr. ἀτιμία, f. ἄτῑμος dishonored, f. ἀ priv. + τῑμή honor.] Public disgrace; spec. deprivation of civil rights. (A transference of the Greek word, in its technical sense.)
1847. Grote, Greece, II. xi. III. 134. Those who had been condemned by the archons to atimy (civil disfranchisement).
