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ignobleness|ɪgˈnəʊb(ə)lnɪs|
[f. ignoble + -ness.]
The quality of being ignoble (in either sense of the adj.); ignobility.
1625K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis i. xiv. 39 Wilt thou staine by the ignoblenesse of the skirmish, eyther thy death or victory? a1661B. Holyday Juvenal 71. 1741 Middleton Cicero II. ix. 329 [Antony] Reproached him with the ignobleness of his birth. 1879Farrar St. Paul xxxi. II. 62 It was not with the world's..rank, but its ignobleness..divine forces were allied. |