inglorious
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English
Etymology
From Latin inglōriōsus.[1] By surface analysis, in- + glorious.
Pronunciation
Adjective
inglorious (comparative more inglorious, superlative most inglorious)
- Ignominious; disgraceful. [1]
- c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 18, column 2:
- Oh inglorious league: / Shall we vpon the footing of our land, / Send fayre-play-orders, and make comprimiſe, / Inſinuation, parley, and baſe truce / To Armes Inuaſiue?
- 1831 October 31, Mary W Shelley, chapter VI, in Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; IX), 3rd edition, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 54:
- Resolved to pursue no inglorious career, he turned his eyes toward the East, as affording scope for his spirit of enterprise.
- 1906 May–October, Jack London, “The Famine”, in White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 3 (The Gods of the Wild), page 173:
- e cast about in his mind for a way to beat a retreat not too inglorious.
- 1945 September and October, C. Hamilton Ellis, “Royal Trains—V”, in Railway Magazine, page 251:
- The last occasion on which the Kaiser [Wilhelm II] used this train was for an inglorious journey into Holland towards the end of the 1914 war. He spent the night in it at Eysden [Eijsden], while the Queen of the Netherlands and a hastily summoned Cabinet debated what to do with him.
- (now rare)[1] Not famous; obscure. [1]
- 1671, John Milton, “The Third Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: J M for John Starkey , →OCLC, page 56, lines 39–42:
- Great Julius [Caesar], whom now all the world admires / The more he grew in years, the more inflam’d / With glory, wept that he had liv’d ſo long / Inglorious: but thou yet art not too late.
Translations
ignominious, disgraceful
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 “inglorious, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Further reading
- “inglorious”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.