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inglorious, a.|ɪnˈglɔərɪəs|
[ad. L. inglōriōsus (Pliny): see in-3 and glorious, and cf. L. inglōrius, and F. inglorieux (14th c. in Littré).]
1. Not glorious, famous, or renowned; not known to fame; obscure, humble. Now rare.
1591Spenser M. Hubberd 981 Who will not venture life a King to bee, And rather rule..Than dwell in dust inglorious and bace? 16022nd Pt. Return fr. Parnass. iv. v. (Arb.) 61 Inglorious may they liue, inglorious die, That suffer learning liue in misery. 1671Milton P.R. iii. 42. 1750 Gray Elegy xv, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest. 1881Stevenson Virg. Puerisque 120 That mighty place of education, which..turns out yearly many inglorious masters in the Science of the Aspects of Life.
†b. Without the glory of (something). rare.
1788Gibbon Decl. & F. lxiii. (1855) VII. 401 The far greater part were guiltless or inglorious of the deed.
2. Of actions, mode of life, etc.: Bringing no glory or honour (to a person); hence, conferring disgrace, shameful, ignominious.
1573G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 41 Which was not so commodious for me..as it was inglorius for them, to ther wunderful greif. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 161 Neyther let your battell be ingloryous, exempted from noblenesse. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Warres 824 The King [was] freed from such an inglorious contest. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. v. (1869) I. 106 The victory over the senate was easy and inglorious. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. ii. I. 191 It involved the country in an inglorious, unprofitable, and interminable war. 1864Bryce Holy Rom. Emp. xiv. (1875) 224 An inglorious traffic in honours and exemptions. |