Ignomy

Ig´no`my


n. 1. Ignominy.
I blush to think upon this ignomy.
- Shak.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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She has the weight of contemporary medical opinion behind her: Thomas Wright argues that blushes arise equally in 'those that have committed a fault' and in those who 'imagine they are thought to have committed it'; likewise, Robert Burton believes blushing is 'not only caused for some shame or ignomy', but can arise from 'a conceit of our defects'.
His bid for freedom ended in ignomy when he became trapped in a wire fence.
Gareth Bale celebrates one of the <Bhas time on his side to break every two goals that rescued Wales from the ignomy of defeat to Andorra last month.
The obvious site for the Eppy statue would be Whitechapel, adjacent to the former site of NEMS, the family business, which later suffered the ignomy of being turned into an Ann Summers sex shop.
TO add to the ignomy heaped-on Benefits Street's muchmaligned residents, there is now a twitter campaign to buy the shocking reality show's mother hen White Dee - referred to in the Daily Mail as simply "obese single mother" - a bra.
With Basel needing a win themselves, Fletcher acknowledged the challenge facing United, who are desperate to avoid the ignomy of finishing third and ending up in the Europa League for the first time.
Ignomy and shame / Pursue thy life and live aye with thy name' (5.11.33-34).
The ignomy (dhilla) resulting from this stigmatization is so great that it appears "as if their faces had been veiled (ughshiyat) with a cloak of darkest night" (10:27).
Septimus suffered the ignomy of being caught red-handed, clad only in antimacassars, while burgling the home of a celebrated designer of dadoes.
City have eight games remaining in which three or four victories would possibly save them from the ignomy of the drop, the run-in starts on Saturday when they face Cheshire neighbours Macclesfield at the Deva.
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