IGNOMINY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ignominy mean? 

• IGNOMINY (noun)
  The noun IGNOMINY has 1 sense:

1. a state of dishonor

  Familiarity information: IGNOMINY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IGNOMINY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of dishonor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

disgrace; ignominy; shame

Context example:

suffered the ignominy of being sent to prison

Hypernyms ("ignominy" is a kind of...):

dishonor; dishonour (a state of shame or disgrace)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ignominy"):

humiliation (state of disgrace or loss of self-respect)

obloquy; opprobrium (state of disgrace resulting from public abuse)

odium (state of disgrace resulting from detestable behavior)

reproach (disgrace or shame)

Derivation:

ignominious ((used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame)

 Context examples 

I soon shall see you again in heaven, where we shall all be happy; and that consoles me, going as I am to suffer ignominy and death.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

This preparation for bonds, and the additional ignominy it inferred, took a little of the excitement out of me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I remain silent and suffer ignominy, as you will remain silent and suffer ignominy.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Ignominy, Want, Despair, and Madness, have, collectively or separately, been the attendants of my career.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I had a strong hope, which never left me, that I should one day recover my liberty: and as to the ignominy of being carried about for a monster, I considered myself to be a perfect stranger in the country, and that such a misfortune could never be charged upon me as a reproach, if ever I should return to England, since the king of Great Britain himself, in my condition, must have undergone the same distress.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Little did I then expect the calamity that was in a few moments to overwhelm me and extinguish in horror and despair all fear of ignominy or death.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Mary Anne's cousin deserted into our coal-hole, and was brought out, to our great amazement, by a piquet of his companions in arms, who took him away handcuffed in a procession that covered our front-garden with ignominy.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Could the dæmon who had (I did not for a minute doubt) murdered my brother also in his hellish sport have betrayed the innocent to death and ignominy?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Dear lady, I had none to support me; all looked on me as a wretch doomed to ignominy and perdition.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)