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Webster 1913 Edition
Ignominy
Ig′no-min-y
,Noun.
pl.
Ignominies
(#)
. 1.
Public disgrace or dishonor; reproach; infamy.
Their generals have been received with honor after their defeat; yours with
ignominy
after conquest. Addison.
Vice begins in mistake, and ends in
ignominy
. Rambler.
Ignominy
is the infliction of such evil as is made dishonorable, or the deprivation of such good as is made honorable by the Commonwealth. Hobbes.
Syn. – Opprobrium; reproach; dishonor.
Webster 1828 Edition
Ignominy
IG'NOMINY
,Noun.
Their generals have been received with honor after their defeat; yours with ignominy after conquest.
Vice begins in mistake, and ends in ignominy.
Definition 2024
ignominy
ignominy
English
Noun
ignominy (countable and uncountable, plural ignominies)
- Great dishonor, shame, or humiliation.
- 2014, Daniel Taylor, England and Wayne Rooney see off Scotland in their own back yard (in The Guardian, 18 November 2014)
- It was tribal, almost relentless and, in the case of the official England band, there was a degree of ignominy, too, for repeatedly playing a tune for which the words go “**** the IRA”, something that could lead to a full breakdown of their relationship with the FA.
- a. 1994, Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat, Andrews McMeel, ISBN 0-83621769-1, page 168:
- Calvin: Our great plan backfired and I'm the one who got soaked! Oh, the shame! The ignominy!
- 2014, Daniel Taylor, England and Wayne Rooney see off Scotland in their own back yard (in The Guardian, 18 November 2014)
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Translations
Great dishonor, shame, or humiliation