Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being inglorious; want of fame or honor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being inglorious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state of being
inglorious .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Well now that the tour is over, I can recount its glory and ingloriousness with the advantage of retrospect.
Jon Chattman: Sound Bites: Gomez HP Exclusive Premiere New Song; Mother Mother Interview Jon Chattman 2011
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Well now that the tour is over, I can recount its glory and ingloriousness with the advantage of retrospect.
Jon Chattman: Sound Bites: Gomez HP Exclusive Premiere New Song; Mother Mother Interview Jon Chattman 2011
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Well now that the tour is over, I can recount its glory and ingloriousness with the advantage of retrospect.
Jon Chattman: Sound Bites: Gomez HP Exclusive Premiere New Song; Mother Mother Interview Jon Chattman 2011
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Instead, it glorifies past film genres while simultaneously baring the general ingloriousness of war and the way that it is portrayed on film.
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Take a peek at the ingloriousness of it all, then explore the whole Tyler Stout collection ala the gallery right down there below!
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In the Tusculan Disputations he enumerates (V x 29) various things such as poverty, ingloriousness, loneliness, pain, ill health, etc., which many people (but not he: his own view is the Stoic one that virtue all by itself guarantees happiness) take to be bad things, and then says (V x 30, King 1927 pp. 454/455-456/457):
Speusippus Dancy, Russell 2003
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For will it not be a standing reminder of the _ingloriousness_ of war, its preposterous absurdity, and of its futility as a means of settling the affairs of nations?
Fragments From France Bruce Bairnsfather
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They would have to rot there for eternity in everlasting ingloriousness.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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By no means; but ingloriousness, and slavery, and bonds, and every burdensome thing one can say.
NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians Editor 1889
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No preacher could persuade a thief of the practical ingloriousness of thieving, as Lotys could, -- and a prison chaplain, remonstrating with an assassin after his crime, was not half as much use to the State as Lotys, who could induce such an one to resign his murderous intent altogether, before he had so much as possessed himself of the necessary weapon.
Temporal Power Marie Corelli 1889
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