单词 | ignobleness |
释义 | ignoblenessn. Meanness or baseness of character; ignobility. Also: lowness of birth, lack of nobility. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > ignobleness or baseness > [noun] villainyc1386 simplessea1393 littlenessa1400 unnoblenessc1400 unnobilitya1425 unnobletya1425 ignoblenessc1450 ignobility?a1475 vileness1549 vilityc1550 haskardy?1578 dunghillry1581 indignity1589 beggarya1616 ignoblesse?1616 poorness1625 lowness1652 meanness1660 society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > [noun] lowness?c1225 unnobleyc1384 noughtc1400 ignoblenessc1450 innoblessea1470 deuce-ace1481 ignobility1483 dunghill1537 vilityc1550 baseness1552 humility1623 non-class1973 society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > baseness or moral vileness vilety?c1225 villainy?c1225 vilehead1340 caitiftya1400 vilitya1425 ignoblenessc1450 ignobility?a1475 vileness1526 baseness1537 dunghillry1581 base-mindedness1582 vildness1597 beggarya1616 lowness1652 villainya1719 caddishness1868 bounderishness1899 c1450 J. Metham Physiognomy in Wks. (1916) 134 Yche fulle face..betokynnyth ferfullnes, voluptuusnes, ignobylnes. 1625 K. Long tr. J. Barclay Argenis i. xiv. 39 Wilt thou staine by the ignoblenesse [L. ignobilitate] of the skirmish, eyther thy death or victory? a1661 B. Holyday in tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) Illustr. 71 The Poet..desires to be but fraterculus, rather then frater..least he should seem to wish for their gigantick vastness of body, as well as for their Ignobleness. 1741 C. Middleton Hist. Life Cicero II. ix. 329 [Antony] Reproached him with the ignobleness of his birth. 1867 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 23 Mar. Here..we are too fully imbued with the true American spirit to yield to any such ignobleness. 1914 L. Woolf Wise Virgins (2003) iii. 41 The foulness and ignobleness of one's own thoughts. 2013 Kirkus Rev. (Nexis) 15 July Amid all the ignobleness, readers will have difficulty finding a sympathetic character or a redeeming sentiment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.c1450 |
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