Definition of Ignoblest

1. ignoble [adj] - See also: ignoble

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ignoblest

ignition system
ignition temperature
ignition temperatures
ignitions
ignitor
ignitors
ignitron
ignitrons
ignivomous
ignobilities
ignobility
ignoble
ignobleness
ignoblenesses
ignobler
ignoblest (current term)
ignobly
ignomies
ignominies
ignominious
ignominiously
ignominiousness
ignominous
ignominy
ignomy
ignorable
ignorami
ignoramus
ignoramuses
ignorance

Literary usage of Ignoblest

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain (1896)
"... learning of France, but against the ignoblest deceits, the meanest treacheries, and the hardest hearts to be found in any land, pagan or Christian. ..."

2. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1899)
"... learning of France, but against the ignoblest deceits, the meanest treacheries, and the hardest hearts to be found in any land, pagan or Christian. ..."

3. Voltaire by John Morley (1872)
"... surrounded by the wholly uncongenial atmosphere of rationalistic method, fall back, not on the noblest, but on the ignoblest parts of their system. ..."

4. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"Which yours by ill translating made his , own; J Conceal'd its author, and usurp'd the name, The basest and ignoblest theft of fame. ..."

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