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ignoble (the adv. “ignobly” occurs only in sense 2)
1. of low birth or base descent 1H6 III. i. 177, V. iv. 7, 3H6 IV. i. 70, R3 III. vii. 126.
2. base or dishonourable in character Tp. I. ii. 116, Wint. II. iii. 119, R3 III. v. 21.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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    • William Shakespeare, The First Part of Henry VI, 3.1
    • William Shakespeare, The First Part of Henry VI, 5.4
    • William Shakespeare, The Tempest, 1.2
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