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Definition of Ignominy

1. Noun. A state of dishonor. "Suffered the ignominy of being sent to prison"

Definition of Ignominy

1. n. Public disgrace or dishonor; reproach; infamy.

Definition of Ignominy

1. Noun. Great dishonor, shame, or humiliation. ¹

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Definition of Ignominy

1. disgrace or dishonor [n -NIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ignominy

Literary usage of Ignominy

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

1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia by John Bouvier, Francis Rawle (1914)
"ignominy is the opposite of esteem. Wolff § 145. See Brown v. Kings- ley, 38 la. 220. IGNORAMUS (Lat we are ignorant or uninformed). ..."

2. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1856)
"The person whom you call your Messiah, says he, incurred the last disgrace and ignominy, for he fi-ll under the greatest curse in the'law of God; ..."

3. The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"... in ill« punishment and ignominy designed for the Usurper's Body. JIS. Amongst other Papers, the following MS. was carefully preserved by my Lord Oxford. ..."

4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"He punished with death, or ignominy, the misbehaviour of three troops of horse, who, in a skirmish with the Sureñas, had lost their honour and one of their ..."

5. The History of Herodotus by Herodotus (1824)
"Aristodemus, at his return, was punished with ignominy and dishonour; with dishonour, in that no Lacedaemonian would converse with him, ..."

6. The History of Rome by Livy (1888)
"It was added to the decree, that, " if any person in future should make any proposal tending to throw disgrace and ignominy on Philip, the people of Athens ..."

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