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Definition of Ignoramuses
1. ignoramus [n] - See also: ignoramus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ignoramuses
Literary usage of Ignoramuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Methodist Review (1873)
"... a set of bigots and ignoramuses. We have in a former Quarterly referred to
the fact th:it our scientific solvers of supernaturalistic phenomena give us ..."
2. Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan for by Basil Hall Chamberlain (1905)
"Far be it, however, from ignoramuses like ourselves to venture into the controversial
quagmire. Book recommended. ..."
3. The British Critic: A New Review (1814)
"The ignoramuses, with all their heart-knowledge, were a rude, brutish, smoking,
coltish, crew. ... Some of the ignoramuses were preachers be- ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1856)
"Those two men, then, let all such ignoramuses know, are the editors of two widely
circulated New York papers—the two most widely circulated, we believe, ..."
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