ignominious

英語

詞源

源自法語或古法語 ignominieux，源自拉丁語 ignōminiōsus (“可耻的”)，源自ignōminia (“名誉扫地”)，源自ig- (“不”) + nomen (“名誉”)（前缀为in-的同化形式）。 就词形分析为ignominy +‎ -ious。

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• 國際音標^(幫助)：/ɪɡnəˈmɪniəs/

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形容詞

ignominious (比較級 more ignominious, 最高級 most ignominious)

1. 耻辱的，不光彩的

   The time when the pseudovirtuous men and women die a painful and ignominious death has yet to come.

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   • 1776, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol I, ch 1—pt ii:

     The golden eagle, which glittered in the front of the legion, was the object of their fondest devotion; nor was it esteemed less impious than it was ignominious, to abandon that sacred ensign in the hour of danger.

   • 1830, The Book of Mormon:

     And it came to pass that they took him; and his name was Nehor; and they carried him upon the top of the hill Manti, and there he was caused, or rather did acknowledge, between the heavens and the earth, that what he had taught to the people was contrary to the word of God; and there he suffered an ignominious death.

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   • 1902, Thomas Ebenezer Webb, The Mystery of William Shakespeare: A Summary of Evidence，頁號 242:

     Greene died of a debauch; and Marlowe, the gracer of tragedians, perished in an ignominious brawl.

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   • 1945 8月 17, George Orwell [筆名；本名 Eric Arthur Blair], 章號 6, 出自 Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC:

     In sheer malignity, thinking to set back our plans and avenge himself for his ignominious expulsion, this traitor has crept here under cover of night and destroyed our work of nearly a year.

近義詞

• 参见Thesaurus:despicable

衍生詞彙

• ignominiously

相關詞彙

• ignominy