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ignominy
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ignominy \Ig"no*min*y\, n.; pl. Ignominies. [L. ignominia ignominy (i.e., a deprivation of one's good name); in- not + nomen name: cf. F. ignominie. See In- not, and Name.]
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Public disgrace or dishonor; reproach; infamy.
Their generals have been received with honor after their defeat; yours with ignominy after conquest.
--Addison.Vice begins in mistake, and ends in ignominy.
--Rambler.Ignominy is the infliction of such evil as is made dishonorable, or the deprivation of such good as is made honorable by the Commonwealth.
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An act deserving disgrace; an infamous act.
Syn: Opprobrium; reproach; dishonor.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, back-formation from ignominious or else from Middle French ignominie (15c.), from Latin ignominia "disgrace, dishonor" (see ignominious). Also sometimes shortened to ignomy.
Wiktionary
n. Great dishonor, shame, or humiliation.
WordNet
Usage examples of "ignominy".
For my own part I can think of no crime, unless it is reckless begetting or the wilful transmission of contagious disease, for which the bleak terrors, the solitudes and ignominies of the modern prison do not seem outrageously cruel.
There was nothing for Bering but to retire in ignominy or prove his conclusions.
By a single edict, he reduced the palace of Constantinople to an immense desert, and dismissed with ignominy the whole train of slaves and dependants, without providing any just, or at least benevolent, exceptions, for the age, the services, or the poverty, of the faithful domestics of the Imperial family.
The patrician Photius, perhaps, alone was resolved to live and to die like his ancestors: he enfranchised himself with the stroke of a dagger, and left his tyrant the poor consolation of exposing with ignominy the lifeless corpse of the fugitive.
Tortures and ignominies shall be heaped upon you until you grovel at my feet asking the boon of death.
Or, dumb with ignominy Like that with which he perished, shall I pour Libations on the earth, and like a man That flings away the lustral filth, shall I Throw down the urn and walk with eyes not turned?
Thirty-eighth Infantry Division that suffered the ignominy of being defeated in battle by Kurdish peshmerga near Arbil in March 1995.
I caught him a painful blow upon the shin bone that saved Xodar from this added ignominy.
Ten men had been demoted for untidiness, the entire night watch paraded in ignominy throughout the castle, two samurai ordered to commit seppuku because they were late for their watch, and four nightsoil collectors thrown off the battlements for spilling part of a container in the castle garden.
He was uplifted above others in gifts of graces, so was He lowered beneath others by the ignominy of His sufferings.
Severus mounted the tribunal, sternly reproached them with perfidy and cowardice, dismissed them with ignominy from the trust which they had betrayed, despoiled them of their splendid ornaments, and banished them, on pain of death, to the distance of a hundred miles from the capital.
So sudden had been that revolution of fortune which had prostrated him from the palmy height of youthful pleasure and successful love to the lowest abyss of ignominy, and the horror of a most bloody death, that he could scarcely convince himself that he was not held in the meshes of some fearful dream.
After the death of Maximian, his titles, according to the established custom, had been erased, and his statues thrown down with ignominy.
Yet they rallied in their extreme distress, and the martial youths, who had clamorously demanded the battle, refused to survive the ignominy of flight.
It is better that curates should starve than undergo such ignominy as that.