renown

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)Fame; celebrity; wide recognition.

   “She is a theame of honour and renowne, / A ſpurre to valiant and magnanimous deeds, / Whoſe preſent courage may beate downe our foes, / And fame in time to come canonize us, […]”

   “And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown: […]”

   “[…] Nor envy we / Thy great Renown, nor grudge thy Victory; / 'Tis thine, O King, th' Afflicted to redreſs, / And Fame has fill'd the World with thy Succeſs; […]”

   “There sleep the mighty dead as in life they slept, warriors and princes of high renown.”

   “[…] one day local fame would become world renown […]”

2. (obsolete, uncountable, usually)Reports of nobleness or achievements; praise.

   “[…] She / Is daughter to this famous Duke of Milan, / Of whom so often I have heard renown, / But never saw before;”

verb

1. (transitive)To make famous.