Ignoble Definition

ĭg-nōbəl
adjective
Not noble in birth or position; of the common people.
Webster's New World
Not noble in character or quality; dishonorable; base; mean.
Webster's New World
Not of high social status; common.
American Heritage

Not honorable; base.

Wiktionary

Not a true or "noble" falcon; said of certain hawks, such as the goshawk.

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Origin of Ignoble

  • Middle English of low birth from Old French from Latin ignōbilis i-, in- not in–1 nōbilis, gnōbilis noble noble

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle French ignoble, from Latin ignobilis, from in- (not) + gnobilis, later nobilis (noble)

    From Wiktionary

Ignoble Sentence Examples

  • The character of the first Medician pope shows a peculiar mixture of noble and ignoble qualities.

  • Will not be ignoble and say the harsh thing, but only insinuate it.

  • But his long reign is unstained by a single ignoble deed, and he devoted himself heart and soul to the promotion of the material and spiritual welfare of Denmark.

  • But, above all, the central figure of his book redeems it from the possibility of the charge of being commonplace or ignoble.

  • The efforts of life eventually transmute the ignoble into illustrious nobility.

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