ignobleness
(ɪgˈnəʊb(ə)lnɪs)
[f. ignoble + -ness.]
The quality of being ignoble (in either sense of the adj.); ignobility.
| 1625 K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis i. xiv. 39 Wilt thou staine by the ignoblenesse of the skirmish, eyther thy death or victory? a 1661 B. Holyday Juvenal 71. 1741 Middleton Cicero II. ix. 329 [Antony] Reproached him with the ignobleness of his birth. 1879 Farrar St. Paul xxxi. II. 62 It was not with the world's..rank, but its ignobleness..divine forces were allied. |