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ignominy

noun
/ˈɪɡnəˌmɪni/UK/ˈɪɡnəˌmɪni/US

Etymology

Borrowed from French ignominie, from Latin ignōminia, from ig- (“not”) + nomen (“name”) (prefix assimilated form of in-).

  1. derived from ignōminia
  2. borrowed from ignominie

Definitions

  1. Great dishonor, shame, or humiliation.

    • Near-synonym: bad name
    • But like Czar Peter content to toil in the shipyards of foreign cities, Queequeg disdained no seeming ignominy, if thereby he might happily gain the power of enlightening his untutored countrymen.
    • Bradly came out from hiding with a dyspeptic grunt, too depressed by ignominy to send a curse after the old woman.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at ignominy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01ignominy02humiliation03humiliated04humiliate05ashamed06ashame07shame

A definitional loop anchored at ignominy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at ignominy

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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