Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To deprive of nobility.
- Not noble; ignoble; mean.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Ignoble.
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- adjective dated Not
noble .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It was kind of unnoble at the time because a lot of IP gets created in those times of big traffic and lots of volume.
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Our hero is the son of the emperor and a concubine who dies, and later as punishment the prince is given a “common” last name and thus made “unnoble.”
Japan April 15 &17 (day 15 and 17): the rest of Kyoto’s story and heading home Elizabeth McClung 2008
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Our hero is the son of the emperor and a concubine who dies, and later as punishment the prince is given a “common” last name and thus made “unnoble.”
Archive 2008-04-01 Elizabeth McClung 2008
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Your unwavering dedication to this unnoble cause is turning your Karma to mush.
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For envy is so unnoble a devil, that it ever tyrannizeth most upon a slip or low prostration, at which time gallant minds do most disdain to triumph.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 559, July 28, 1832 Various
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Dick thought of the kidnapping of Florence Dombey and good Mrs. Brown, but Oswald had no such unnoble thoughts.
New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925
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Many noble and unnoble clerks and laymen had despised the world and begun to follow him, and the holy father enseigned and taught them the perfection of the gospel, which was for to be in poverty, and that they should go by the way of simpleness.
The Golden Legend, vol. 5 1230-1298 1900
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The courtesan of the Italian Renaissance, Japanese geishas, Chinese flower-girls, and Indian bayaderas, all show some not unnoble features, the breath of a free artistic existence.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society Havelock Ellis 1899
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Let follie be dishonest, dishonestie unnoble, ignobilitie scandalous and scandall slanderous.
Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897
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Mrs. Brown, but Oswald had no such unnoble thoughts.
New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune 1891
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