meaning of ignoble
1. Of low birth or family; not noble; not illustrious; plebeian; common; humble.
2. Not honorable, elevated, or generous; base.
3. Not a true or noble falcon; -- said of certain hawks, as the goshawk.
4. To make ignoble.
5. completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose; "something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude"; "I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part"- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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ignoble | ignobleness |
