ingloriousness
Example Sentences
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Is that joy and that glory but a comparative glory and a comparative joy? not such in itself, but such in comparison of the joylessness and the ingloriousness of this world?
From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by Donne, John
They would have to rot there for eternity in everlasting ingloriousness.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Ganguli, Kisari Mohan
Ere long, however, he grew weary of the latitudinarianism and of the ingloriousness of barbaric life, and he began to sigh for the flesh-pots of the city.
From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Downey, Edmund
Is the glory of heaven no perfecter in itself, but that it needs a foil of depression and ingloriousness in this world, to set it off?
From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by Donne, John
