ignoble
Pronunciation
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.003
Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ɪɡˈnəʊbəl/
ignoble (comparative ignobler, superlative ignoblest)
- Not noble; plebeian; common.
- c. 1591–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene i]:
- I was not ignoble of descent.
- Not honorable; base.
- 1591, William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene i]:
- A base, ignoble mind, / That mounts no higher than a bird can soar.
- far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife
- Not a true or "noble" falcon; said of certain hawks, such as the goshawk.
- (common) common, plebeian, vulgar
- (not honorable) degenerate, mean, base, vile, low-minded, reproachful, shameful, disgraceful
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.003