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- noun Plural form of
ignobility .
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Examples
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What is this flame of her, blazing through all her contradictions and ignobilities?
CHAPTER VIII 2010
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I, as all the generations of philosophers before me, know woman for what she is -- her weaknesses, and meannesses, and immodesties, and ignobilities, her earth-bound feet, and her eyes that have never seen the stars.
Chapter 21 2010
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I, as all the generations of philosophers before me, know woman for what she isher weaknesses and meannesses and immodesties and ignobilities, her earth-bound feet and her eyes that have never seen the stars.
Chapter 21 1915
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What is this flame of her, blazing through all her contradictions and ignobilities?
Chapter 8 1914
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I, as all the generations of philosophers before me, know woman for what she is -- her weaknesses, and meannesses, and immodesties, and ignobilities, her earth-bound feet, and her eyes that have never seen the stars.
The Jacket (Star-Rover) Jack London 1896
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What is this flame of her, blazing through all her contradictions and ignobilities?
The Mutiny of the Elsinore Jack London 1896
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Here, in effect says the worthy churchman, was a man who, having passed the flower of his life in squalor and all manner of ignobilities, still kept in a sense the whiteness of his soul and allowed the brightness of the celestial flame to burn, faintly indeed but unextinguished, on the altar of his heart.
If I Were King Justin McCarthy 1871
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