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Definition of Ignobility
1. Noun. The quality of being ignoble.
Generic synonyms: Dishonorableness, Dishonourableness
Derivative terms: Ignoble, Ignoble
Definition of Ignobility
1. n. Ignobleness.
Definition of Ignobility
1. Noun. The state or condition of being ignoble. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ignobility
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Ignobility
Literary usage of Ignobility
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical and by Robert Chambers, David Patrick (1901)
"Not only does the drama of the Restoration and the Revolution offend by its
grossness, but it leaves on the reader's mind an impression of ignobility and ..."
2. The Fates of the Princes of Dyfed by Kenneth Morris (1914)
"Yes," he said; " the third part of my sorrow is gone, and the third part of my
ignobility. My youth will return because of this, and the ancient sapience of ..."
3. The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James (1902)
"His later works show him implacable to the whole system of official values: the
ignobility of fashionable life ; the infamies of empire; the spuriousness of ..."
4. Enjoyment of Poetry by Max Eastman (1921)
"A little group of isolated and exclusive miracles had not reduced all the true
and current glories of life to a status of ignobility, so that every great ..."
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