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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



... war began for Virginia. Bitter before, now was she on fire. Close her lips as tightly as she might, the tears forced themselves to her eyes. The ignominy of it! ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... liberty and honor as himself, and his superior in intelligence. His recall had been due to the desire of London merchants, who believed that his presence was destructive of their commercial interests. The ministers for whom he had incurred so much ignominy would do nothing for him; for the dishonorable are always ...
— The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 • Julian Hawthorne
... than half his available evening, the best time for study in the twenty-four hours, day after day. And that was going on steadily, a perpetual leakage of time. To-night he would go to meet her again, and begin to accumulate to himself ignominy in the second part of the course, the botanical section, also. And so, reluctantly rejecting one cloudy excuse after another, he clearly focussed the antagonism between his relations to Ethel and ...
— Love and Mr. Lewisham • H. G. Wells
... of the Western Hemisphere. The Navy offers us the only means of making our insistence upon the Monroe Doctrine anything but a subject of derision to whatever nation chooses to disregard it. We desire the peace which comes as of right to the just man armed; not the peace granted on terms of ignominy to the ...
— State of the Union Addresses of Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt
... Afterwards, when he sailed for Carthage, he had no sooner landed than he was ordered by the governor (Sextilius) to quit Africa. On his once more gaining the ascendancy and re-entering Rome (B.C. 87), he justified the massacre of Sulla's adherents in a blood-thirsty oration. Past ignominy and present triumph seem to have turned his head ("ut erat inter iram toleratae fortunae, et laetitiam emendatae, parum compos animi").—Plut., "Marius," apud Langhorne, 1838, p. 304; ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4 • Lord Byron


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