Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The quality of being ignoble, in any sense; low birth or condition; humble station; ignobleness; meanness.
- n. The body of persons not of noble rank; the commons: opposed to nobility.
Wiktionary
- n. The state or condition of being ignoble.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Ignobleness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the quality of being ignoble
Examples
“But regarded purelyfrom the standpoint of blood, such a development was profoundly unfortunate: more and more, the nobility lost the racial basis for its existence, andin large measure the designation of 'ignobility' would have been more suitablefor it.”
Mein Kampf
“This week on the most excellent Pseudopod horror podcast, David Nickle's fantastic story "The Inevitability of Earth," a tale about the ignobility of those who would fly:”
“If Truthfulness is the Last Taboo, in the meantime the lowest common denominator aspect of our culture sensationalizes other taboos -- like sex of course, even shrouding ignobility over the very requisite deed that continually incarnates us into the continuum of expression -- to manipulate emotions into profit.”
The Huffington Post: Sebastian Siegel: Letting Go to Hold On
“What wasn't publicized was the ignobility of young Merritt's poverty.”
“Of course, that conflict had as much ignobility and moral ambiguity as any.”
“Wretchedness is a contemptible state whose very ignobility motivates ennobling improvement.”
“I cannot get enough of Gods falling from their thrones and tumbling, like scarred dice, to the flames of ignobility.”
“We MUST educate the young, the vulnerable, the at risk, that military service and war is not a career, nor is it a dignified cause for one's country; it is an ignominious act of ignobility, where the fate that awaits you is death, being maimed, mentally disabled or a murderer.”
“From the look of the embittered and burnt out old man on your video, I'd say it may not be long before Bush feels the icy chill of mortality and ignobility running through his veins.”
“He would have long to brood on the ignobility he has brought to himself and his tribe.”
The Skrayling Tree
Lists
‘ignobility’ hasn't been added to any lists yet.
qroqqa Of actual ignobility too proud
To admit brotherhood, and sickened
—Robert Fitzgerald, 'Adulescentia'
Another of those words that obviously must exist but are virtually never seen in actual use. Mar 23, 2009