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ignoramus noun See fool (sense 1 of the noun). USAGE ignoramus Until 1934 in England, if a grand jury considered the evidence of an alleged crime insufficient to prosecute, it would endorse the bill ignoramus, meaning literally “we do not know” or “we know nothing of this.” Long before, though, the word ignoramus had come to mean, by extension, “an ignorant person.” In 1615, George Ruggle wrote a play called Ignoramus, about a lawyer who knew nothing about the law; this fictional lawyer soon gave his name to all manner of know-nothings, whether lawyers or nonlawyers. The modern nonlegal meaning appears most frequently—e.g.: “There's no surprise—or challenge—in watching a sycophantic, misogynistic ignoramus like Burdette win out over the self-effacing, truth-loving Hutchinson.” ( Chicago Tribune; Aug. 5, 1997.) The plural is ignoramuses. The form ignorami is a pseudo-learned blunder, since in Latin ignoramus is a verb and not one of the Latin nouns ending in -us.Usage notes show additional guidance on finer points of English usage. |