ignomy

English

Etymology

Syncopic form of ignominy.

Noun

ignomy (usually uncountable, plural ignomies)

1. Obsolete spelling of ignominy
   • c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:

     Adieu! and take thy praise with thee to heaven,
     Thy ignomy sleep with thee in the grave,
     But not remember’d in thy epitaph!