Both Uses of
ignoble
in
Brave New World
- "It was base," he said indignantly, "it was ignoble."†
p. 170..1 *
- He squeezed her limp hand almost with violence, as though he would force her to come back from this dream of ignoble pleasures, from these base and hateful memories–back into the present, back into reality: the appalling present, the awful reality–but sublime, but significant, but desperately important precisely because of the imminence of that which made them so fearful.†
p. 204..6
Definition:
-
(ignoble) dishonorable or lacking nobility