(n.) The condition of being ignorant; the want of knowledge in general, or in relation to a particular subject; the state of being uneducated or uninformed.
(n.) A willful neglect or refusal to acquire knowledge which one may acquire and it is his duty to have.
Example Sentences:
(1) It ignores the reduction in the wider, non-NHS cost of adult mental illness such as benefit payments and forgone tax, calculated by the LSE report as £28bn a year.
(2) Anything not eligible is simply ignored or assumed to be someone else’s responsibility.
(3) And this has opened up a loophole for businesses to be morally bankrupt, ignoring the obligations to its workforce because no legal conduct has been established.” Whatever the outcome of the pending lawsuits, it’s unlikely that just one model will work for everybody.
(4) No one expected us to win either of these byelections, but we can’t ignore how disappointing these results are,” he said, referring also to last week’s Richmond Park byelection.
(5) There were soon tales of claimants dying after having had money withdrawn, but the real administrative problem was the explosion of appeals, which very often succeeded because many medical problems were being routinely ignored at the earlier stage.
(6) He wanted to ignore Fallope, Vesale, Eustache, Fernet, minor authors.
(7) Spain’s constitutional court responded by unanimously ruling that the legislation had ignored and infringed the rules of the 1978 constitution , adding that the “principle of democracy cannot be considered to be separate from the unconditional primacy of the constitution”.
(8) The Cambridge-based couple felt ignored when tried to raise the alarm about the way their business – publisher Zenith – was treated by Lynden Scourfield, the former HBOS banker jailed last week, and David Mills’ Quayside Corporate Services.
(9) O rdinary hard-working people have genuine concerns about immigration, and to ignore immigration is to undemocratically ignore their needs.” Other than the resurgent importance of jam , this is the clearest message we are supposed to take out of Brexit.
(10) But when the city's Gallery of Modern Art opened in 1998, it totally – and scandalously – ignored the new wave of Glasgow artists.
(11) More than 80% of the carriers who were interviewed ignored the directions about personal hygiene.
(12) Finally, any sensible person must be aware that Labour will find it impossible to govern if it attempts to ignore the national demand for a referendum.
(13) It is resulted from a wrong interpretation of the lung pathology shown in an X-ray picture or its complete ignorance, absence of a regular double reading of fluorographic images, constant shortage of fluorographic films and presence of risk factors.
(14) A deadline for bids had been set for the previous midnight, but East chose to ignore it.
(15) Access to besieged areas was a condition of a truce brokered earlier this year by the US and Russia , but the Syrian government has continued to ignore requests for aid deliveries, humanitarian officials say.
(16) The transport system was analyzed in terms of an equivalent circuit model comprising a proton motive force (PMF), an active conductance (LH) in series with the pump, and a parallel or passive conductance which may be ignored in this preparation.
(17) It's a declaration of exclusion: West is not a member in good standing of DC's Foreign Policy Community, and therefore his views can and should be ignored as Unserious and inconsequential.
(18) The correct formulae, which are available from the theory of age-dependent branching processes, are often ignored in the biological literature, perhaps due to their complexity.
(19) The authors describe several recent court cases in which judges have ignored or distorted acceptable clinical practices, conceivably creating a new liability standard whereby a tragic outcome is considered the result of failure to apply appropriate judgment.
(20) The circumferential stress in the vessel wall was greatly increased by diabetes; great errors will result if the opening angle is ignored.
Personification
Definition:
(n.) The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment.
(n.) A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopop/ia; as, the floods clap their hands.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was a convert to Islam and the personification of Black Pride.
(2) And surviving that moment of iconoclasm early on 9 May , the personification of Labour’s failure.
(3) Alien limb sign includes failure to recognise ownership of one's limb when visual cues are removed, a feeling that one body part is foreign, personification of the affected body part, and autonomous activity which is perceived as outside voluntary control.
(4) This found its personification in the disappointing Ross Barkley, whose burst from near his area before an awry pass was indicative of his contribution throughout.
(5) Ahmed Wali Karzai , who was gunned down in his home in Kandahar by a bodyguard, was in many ways the personification of modern-day Afghanistan – corrupt, treacherous, lawless, paradoxical, subservient and charming.
(6) The abundant data indicate that the shamanistic priest, who was highly placed in the stratified society, guided the souls of the living and dead, provided for the transmutation of souls into other bodies and the personification of plants as possessed by human spirits, as well as performing other shamanistic activities.
(7) The presenters' personification of nursing leadership and management concepts, as well as the descriptions of specific "how to" strategies, provided a valuable ingredient for reinforcing the theoretical concepts.
(8) In the same breath, my body cannot bring itself to believe it is the personification of power, though it evidently is in any rational accountancy of social status.
(9) Nancy Pelosi , the Democratic minority leader, said Giffords was the "personification of courage".
(10) From this is abstracted the idea of 'father' both as a component of the self representation and as the personification of the urge towards continuing development.
(11) That potency was intensified by the media’s eagerness to style him as the personification of Isis malevolence.
(12) In a matter of days Erdoğan has become the personification of all the corrupt despotism and violence of the old Kemalist Turkey he was elected to sweep away.
(13) There is also a concern that she has become the personification of Burmese democracy and this is dangerous.
(14) Simplified to a yellow skull on a shrouded body curved in an S shape, thin, serpentine hands against the emaciated cheeks and covering its ears, the personification of unhappiness stretches its mouth open in a vertical oval, and screams.
(15) Hokhma too was a victim of what might be called the "study-hall syndrome" – when a phalanx of scholarly men elected to write the personification of female wisdom out of the centre and into the margins.
(16) This Mason was Mr Elocution, if you like, the personification of affectation and lingering insult or innuendo.
(17) Cardiff huffed and puffed in response but a top-notch save by Adrián at Fraizer Campbell's expense denied them equality and Mark Noble, the personification of dreadnought spirit, doubled the margin with a smart finish in added time.
(18) Mr Cooke himself even described the late BCCI chairman Agha Abedi as "the living personification of Uriah Heep".
(19) One critic labelled him the "personification of the new amorality of avaricious, red-top, vulgar new Britain".
(20) I'd completely remove the personification in terms of the celebration.