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ignominious, a.|ɪgnəʊˈmɪnɪəs|
[a. F. ignominieux (14–15th c. in adv. ignominieusement, Hatz.-Darm.) = It., Sp. ignominioso, or ad. L. ignōminiōsus, f. ignōminia ignominy.]
1. Full of ignominy; involving shame, disgrace, or obloquy; shameful, disgraceful, discreditable.
In recent use sometimes in weaker sense, ‘lowering to one's dignity or self-respect’.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 205 b, The ignomynyous and shamefull deth of the crosse. 1607Dekker & Webster Sir T. Wyat D.'s Wks. 1873 III. 111 You free your Countrie..From Ignominious slauerie. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. (1869) I. xviii. 499 The ignominious terms of peace were rejected with disdain. 1833H. Martineau Charmed Sea i. 7 Taddeus..prepared to go into ignominious exile. 1869Rawlinson Anc. Hist. 82 Carthage consented to conclude an ignominious peace.
2. Of persons: Covered with ignominy; deserving ignominy; infamous.
1577T. Vautrollier Luther on Ep. Gal. iv. 27 (1615) 220 b, Such as before were strong, full, rich, glorious..shall become feeble, hungrie, poore, ignominious. 1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 63 The most Reprobate Ignoble Ignominious and wicked race, that ever the world was yet pestered with. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 395 Then first with fear surpris'd and sense of paine, Fled ignominious. 1712Blackmore Creation vii. 80 Where wilt thou hide thy ignominious head? 1724Swift Drapier's Lett. iii. Wks. 1778 III. 388 To be sacrificed to one single, rapacious, obscure, ignominious projector.
Hence ignoˈminiously adv., in an ignominious manner; with ignominy or dishonour; shamefully. ignoˈminiousness, the quality of being ignominious.
1615G. Sandys Trav. 89 Men ignorant in letters, studious for their bellies, and ignominiously lazie. 1727Bailey vol. II, Ignominiousness. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xxx. III. 167 The death of the royal captive, who was ignominiously beheaded, disgraced the triumph of Rome and of Christianity. 1844Ld. Brougham Brit. Const. xv. (1862) 223 He was sentenced..to ride ignominiously on a horse with his face towards the tail. |