herostratic fame

alternative Herostratic fame

1. uncountableFame (or infamy) won through crime, destruction, or some other misdeed.

1. uncountableAlternative letter-case form of herostratic fame.

   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.

   1993 November 1, Carl H.D. Henriksen Sr., “In the Desert (1990–1994)”, in A Diary of Pain: Journeying Without a Compass, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, published 3 January 2006, →ISBN, part IV (Returning to Florida (1981–2004)), page 462

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   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.

   1905, Karl Mantzius, translated by Louise von Cossel, “Return to Paris—Molière acts before Louis XIV.—[…]”, in A History of Theatrical Art in Ancient and Modern Times […], volumes IV (Molière and his Times; The Theatre in France in the 17th Century), London: Duckworth & Co. […], footnote 5, page 71

   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.

   2005, Albert Borowitz, “The Literature of Herostratos Since the Early Nineteenth Century”, in Terrorism for Self-Glorification: The Herostratos Syndrome, Kent, Oh.; London: The Kent State University Press, →ISBN, page 132