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The consciousness that her true condition was unknown to her visitant, and the ignominiousness of that truth, gave an air of constraint to her behaviour, which Constantia ascribed to a principle of delicacy.

From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden

The Catholics reproach us, and, it must be confessed, with some justice, with the ignominiousness of its origin.

From Queen Elizabeth Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob