Both Uses
ignominious
in
Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street
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- With any other man I should have flown outright into a dreadful passion, scorned all further words, and thrust him ignominiously from my presence.†
*ignominiously = in a manner that deserves or brings disgrace or shame
- Was there any other thing in which I could procure myself to be ignominiously repulsed by this lean, penniless wight?†
Definitions:
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(1)
(ignominious) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame -- typically in reference to behavior or character
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)