ignominiousadj.

c1429 Mirour Mans Saluacioune (1986) l. 2443 (MED) Crosses þat tyme taknys of melyson were..Bot the Crosse þat than was halden waried and ignomynyouse Be Cristis passioune is made fulle blissed and gloriouse.

?1548 J. Bale Image Bothe Churches (new ed.) i. sig.C.ij Though Christ in his first commyng as a mercifull saver, apered here upon earth poore simple and ignominious, yet shal he in his latter comming appere in the cloudes of heauen.

1570 R. Porder Serm. Gods Fearefull Threatnings f. 17 Nazareth..was a place so ignominious amongst the Iewes: that as we read, Nathaniell asked whether any good thing coulde come out of Nazareth.

1605 E. Sandys Relation State of Relig. sig. F4 The most reprobate ignoble, ignominious, and wicked race, that ever the world was pestred with.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 395 Then first with fear surpris'd and sense of paine Fled ignominious . View more context for this quotation

1712 R. Blackmore Creation vii. 315 Where wilt thou hide thy ignominious Head?

1724 J. Swift Some Observ. Wood's Half-pence 13 To be Sacrificed to one Single, Rapacious, Obscure, Ignominious Projector.

1861 Home League (Hartford, Wisconsin) 20 July The bastardly and ignominious blood of the convict sires that once made their homes on the soil of South Carolina.

1923 H. L. Mencken Prejudices 3rd Ser. 10 The most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag.

2003 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 8 Aug. b30/1 As Mr. Queenan himself points out, the ignominious Phillies ‘were the last National League team to integrate’.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1879) VII. 465 Thei were destroyede..for theire ignominiose [L. ignominiosam] apostasye and blasphemy in Criste.

a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. CCv^v The ignomynyous and shamefull deth of the crosse.

1607 T. Dekker & J. Webster Famous Hist. Thomas Wyat sig. D4 You free your Countrie..From Ignominious slauerie.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1869) I. xviii. 499 The ignominious terms of peace were rejected with disdain.

1833 H. Martineau Charmed Sea i. 7 Taddeus..prepared to go into ignominious exile.

1871 N.-Y. Times 7 Aug. 4/4 A like ignominious end befel that pretentious air-car which so long excited the curiosity of our citizens in the neighborhood of Houston and Mercer streets, where it was housed.

1933 V. Brittain Test. of Youth xi. 581 They had to rely on such ignominious expedients as jumble sales for raising funds.

1971 Economist 6 Nov. (Autumn Books section) p. xiv His last year saw an ignominious defeat at the hands of the English.

2012 New Scientist 26 May 3/2 If Greece makes an ignominious exit from the eurozone..there will be disastrous economic consequences for Europe.