Ignominy is public disgrace. The ignominy of defeat, suffer the ignominy, spared the ignominy.
The public part is essential, since ignominy is shame that everybody saw. The Latin means loss of name, from in- plus nomen, which is exactly what a ruined reputation is.
1nounignominyPublic disgrace.
“He suffered the ignominy of being sacked in front of the whole team.”
ignominy is a disgrace.
Latin ignominia is in-, not, plus nomen, a name or reputation.
Latin
ignōminia
French
ignominie
English, today
ignominy
Built from
French ignominie, from Latin ignōminia, from ig- (“not”) + nomen (“name”) (prefix assimilated form of in-).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA