ignominiousnessn.
/ˌɪɡnə(ʊ)ˈmɪnɪəsnəs/, U.S. /ˌɪɡnəˈmɪniəsnəs/ The quality of being ignominious; ignominy.
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1655 W. Pynchon Meritorious Price Mans Redempt. 271 And Christ told his Disciples of the ignominiousness of his death by the Romans, that the Priests and Scribes should deliver him to the Gentiles, to mock, and to scourge, and to crucifie him.
1791 New Ann. Reg. 1790 Brit. & Foreign Hist. 49/1 The ignominiousness of the Russian yoke was every where felt and deplored.
1875 Express & Tel. (Adelaide) 12 Aug. The speaker agreed, and the affair ‘collapsed with conspicuous ignominiousness’, as the hon. member himself would say.
2004 Daily Inter Lake (Kalispell, Montana) 22 Sept. (Sports section) b7/4 He shares the ignominiousness with coach Lubick as having been let go in his fourth year.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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