ignobleness
- a word derived from ignoble.
Example Sentences
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This is faint-heartedness and cowardice, ignobleness and unmanliness.
From Food for the Lambs; or, Helps for Young Christians by Orr, Charles Ebert
No unkindness, suspicion, or ignobleness of any sort, ever interrupted or mixed in the affection of these high friends.
From The Friendships of Women by Alger, William Rounseville
The barrenness and ignobleness of the more usual laborer's life consist in the fact that it is moved by no such ideal inner springs.
From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by James, William
So closely is it packed in among buildings which suggest nothing but the sordid struggle for existence, that it looks depressed, ashamed, tainted by the ignobleness of its surroundings.
From The Nether World by Gissing, George
For ignobleness cannot, by the nature of it, choose the noble: no, there needs a seeing man who is himself noble, cognizant by internal experience of the symptoms of nobleness.
From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Carlyle, Thomas
