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
Humane, are those Punishments that be inflicted by the Commandement of Man; and are either Corporall, or Pecuniary, or Ignominy, or Imprisonment, or Exile, or mixt of these.
From Leviathan by Hobbes, Thomas
The Populace that were left behind in the Circus, hiss’d him every Step he took, they made a Ring about him, and treated him with all the Marks of Ignominy and Contempt.
From Zadig Or, The Book of Fate by Voltaire
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, degradation, and the block were all that impended for him in this world, and they were very imminent.
From Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... by Sabatini, Rafael
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