ignominy

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Ignominy on Two Wheels The secret can be traced to a few tottering rides in Lower Manhattan, with a father and his boy and the afternoons that eventually dissolved their patience.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2012

Ignominy is added to pain, and the nature of Dante’s demeanour towards the sinners changes from pity to hatred.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various

Ignominy in ransom, and free pardon, Are of two houses: lawful mercy is Nothing akin to foul redemption.

From Characteristics of Women Moral, Poetical, and Historical by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

Peace, Ignominy, and Destruction," the satirist thus alludes:-"I thought I understood something of faces; but I must read my Lavater over again I find.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Walpole, Horace

And Heaven be likewise praised, say I, Monsieur de Cros is not the Dispenser of Scandal and Ignominy.

From An Answer to a Scurrilous Pamplet [1693] by Anonymous