Both Uses of
ignoble
in
Middlemarch
- He did not like frustrating his own best purposes by getting on bad terms with Bulstrode; he did not like voting against Farebrother, and helping to deprive him of function and salary; and the question occurred whether the additional forty pounds might not leave the Vicar free from that ignoble care about winning at cards.†
Chpt 2
- The fire was not dissipated yet, and she thought it was ignoble in her husband not to apologize to her.†
Chpt 3 *
Definition:
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(ignoble) dishonorable or lacking nobility