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Traditional English :: ignoble
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ignobly.html - adj. (ignobler, ignoblest) 1 dishonourable, mean, base. 2 of low birth, position, or reputation. ignobility n. ignobly adv. [F ignoble or L ignobilis (as IN-(1), nobilis noble)] |
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Traditional English :: ignoble
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ignobly.html - adj. (ignobler, ignoblest) 1 dishonourable, mean, base. 2 of low birth, position, or reputation. ignobility n. ignobly adv. [F ignoble or L ignobilis (as IN-(1), nobilis noble)] |
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Traditional English :: ignoble
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ignobly.html - adj. (ignobler, ignoblest) 1 dishonourable, mean, base. 2 of low birth, position, or reputation. ignobility n. ignobly adv. [F ignoble or L ignobilis (as IN-(1), nobilis noble)] |
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Traditional English :: ignominious
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ignobly.html - adj. 1 causing or deserving ignominy. 2 humiliating. ignominiously adv. ignominiousness n. [ME f. F ignominieux or L ignominiosus] |
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Traditional English :: ignominy
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ignobly.html - n.
1 dishonour, infamy.
2 archaic infamous conduct. [F ignominie or L ignominia (as IN-(1), nomen name)] |
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Traditional English :: ignoramus
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ignobly.html - n. (pl. ignoramuses) an ignorant person. [L, = we do not know: in legal use (formerly of a grand jury rejecting a bill) we take no notice of it; mod. sense perh. from a character in Ruggle's Ignoramus (1615) exposing lawyers' ignorance] |
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