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The only one whose future welfare you cannot rationally ignore is yourself.

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  1. transitive verb To refuse to pay attention to; disregard.

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  • She had a stitch in her side that she was doing her best to ignore, and her breath was coming in harsh pants. —  The Oathbound
  • Leave it to Stream-cuts-Through to re-establish discipline in a fashion none could ignore, and relieve tension at the same time. —  Quozl
  • The only one whose future welfare you cannot rationally ignore is yourself. —  Personal Identity
  • But what Goodman chooses to ignore, and in fact attacks me for pointing out, was survivors 'inability to achieve (in William James's terms) "reunification" of the "divided self." —  Victims of Hiroshima
  • The Executive scowled. —  Starfarers
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. French ignorer, from Old French, from Latin ignōrāre; see gnō- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Dutch ignoreren = German ignoriren = Danish ignorere = Swedish ignorera, from French ignorer = Provencal Spanish Portuguese ignorar = Italian ignorare, from Latin ignōrare, have no knowledge of, mistake, take no notice of, ignore, from ignārus, not knowing, from in- privative + gnārus, knowing (Greek λνωρίζειν, make known), from *gno-scere, no-scere, = Greek γιγνώσκειν, = English know: see know.
 

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/ɪgˈnoʊr/
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