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Ignominy   /ˈɪgnoʊmˌɪni/   Listen
noun
Ignominy  n.  (pl. ignominies)  
1.
Public disgrace or dishonor; reproach; infamy. "Their generals have been received with honor after their defeat; yours with ignominy after conquest." "Vice begins in mistake, and ends in ignominy." "Ignominy is the infliction of such evil as is made dishonorable, or the deprivation of such good as is made honorable by the Commonwealth."
2.
An act deserving disgrace; an infamous act.
Synonyms: Opprobrium; reproach; dishonor.





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"Ignominy" Quotes from Famous Books



... men that march below— O ignominy dire! Are the sons of my free mountains Sold for imperial hire. Ah! the vilest in the dungeon! Ah! the slave upon the seas— Is great, is pure, is glorious, Is grand compared with these, Who, born amid my holy rocks, In solemn places high, Where the tall pines bend like rushes ...
— Poems • Victor Hugo
... sly intriguings of Scaramouche, delighted in the beauty and freshness of Climene, was moved almost to tears by the hard fate which through four long acts kept her from the hungering arms of the so beautiful Leandre, howled its delight over the ignominy of Pantaloon, the buffooneries of his sprightly lackey Harlequin, and the thrasonical strut and bellowing ...
— Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution • Rafael Sabatini
... the world, the nation that has taught the world in the principles of self-government and liberty—to invite this nation itself to sign a decree that declares itself unfit to govern itself without the guardianship of such people, that is an insult which I hope will be thrown back with ignominy." ...
— Lloyd George - The Man and His Story • Frank Dilnot
... the Lombards. Already had been experienced a portentous difficulty in sending relief from Constantinople, on account of the naval superiority of the Saracens in the Mediterranean. For the taxes paid to the sovereign no real equivalent was received; but Rome, in ignominy, was obliged to submit, like an obscure provincial town, to the mandates of the Eastern court. Moreover, in her eyes, the emperor, by reason of his iconoclasm, was a heretic. But if alliance with the Lombards and ...
— History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) - Revised Edition • John William Draper
... coveted privilege of passing the remnant of their days in communion with the Latter Day Saints in the glorious State of Zion. These deluded women get their deserved punishment for deserting the highest and acknowledged duties of life, by the ignominy and contempt heaped upon them by those who allured them from their homes. Contact with this institution has in a few cases not only deadened all finer sensibilities, but has trampled upon instinct, when mothers coming with grown ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 5 • Various


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