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adjective

Ignoble adj.

Of low birth or family; not noble; not illustrious; plebeian; common; humble. "I was not ignoble of descent." "Her royal stock graft with ignoble plants."

Not honorable, elevated, or generous; base. "'T is but a base, ignoble mind, That mounts no higher than a bird can soar." "Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife."

(Zool.) Not a true or noble falcon; said of certain hawks, as the goshawk.

Synonyms: Degenerate; degraded; mean; base; dishonorable; reproachful; disgraceful; shameful; scandalous; infamous.

verb

Ignoble v. t. To make ignoble. (Obs.)

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... capital did not wholly cease to be the resort of students and of artists. The universities maintained themselves in a respectable position—- far different, indeed, from that which they had held in the last century, yet not ignoble. Much was being learned on many lines of study divergent from those prescribed by earlier humanists. Padua, in particular, distinguished itself for medical researches. This was the flourishing time, moreover, of Academies, ...

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... resolved to "redeem" the unfortunate man should the opportunity occur. This is honest work, not Scribe make-believe. Cases in which men and women have wrought themselves into an exalted mood and planned and achieved deeds, great or small, noble or ignoble, but always more or less mad, are common enough in history to justify a dramatist in taking a specimen as one of the persons of his drama. Besides, Senta, from the moment she is seen, stands out as the principal figure. The Dutchman is there to give character ...

— Richard Wagner - Composer of Operas • John F. Runciman

... wealth is an engrossing pursuit—and now that I have amassed a good deal more than I quite know what to do with, it seems to me a very ignoble one. It chokes up everything that makes life worth living; it leaves so little time for the constant and regular practice of those ingenuous arts which faithfully to have learned is said to soften the manners, and make one an ...

— The Martian • George Du Maurier

... happy homes would be polluted, and not a few who, in the pride of their untempted chastity, think of her with an indignant shudder, would have known the agony of remorse and of despair. On that one degraded and ignoble form are concentrated the passions that might have filled the world with shame. She remains, while creeds and civilizations rise and fall, the eternal priestess of humanity, blasted for ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

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