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Ignobleness

noun
1.
The quality of being ignoble.  Synonym: ignobility.





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"Ignobleness" Quotes from Famous Books



... this feeling is noble when it is justified by the strength of its cause, by so much it is ignoble when there is not cause enough for it; and beyond all other ignobleness is the mere affectation of it, in hardness of heart. Simply bad writing may almost always, as above noticed, be known by its adoption of these fanciful metaphorical expressions as a sort of current coin; ...
— Selections From the Works of John Ruskin • John Ruskin


Words linked to "Ignobleness" :   dishonourableness, ignoble, dishonorableness


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