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Ignore

verb

(past & past part. ignored; pres. part. ignoring)

Refuse to acknowledge. Synonyms: cut, disregard, snub.

Bar from attention or consideration. Synonyms: brush aside, brush off, discount, dismiss, disregard, push aside.

Fail to notice.

Give little or no attention to. Synonyms: disregard, neglect.

Be ignorant of or in the dark about.

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"Ignore" Quotes from Famous Books

... masters would do one of two things. Either they would follow the caribou and kill them, or they would ignore the trail and hold their own course. He hoped they would decide to follow the caribou. For two or three days he had been living on fish, and Leloo did not like fish and only ate them when there was nothing else to eat. He watched 'Merican Joe return to his dogs, ...

— Connie Morgan in the Fur Country • James B. Hendryx

... "There are three that bear witness in heaven, the Father, and the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are One." If these two verses are authentic, they would be an affirmation of the doctrine of the Trinity, dating from the first century, at a time when the Gospels, the Acts, and St. Paul ignore it. It was first pointed out in 1806 that these verses were an interpolation, for they do not appear in the best manuscripts, notably all the Greek manuscripts down to the fifteenth century. The Roman Church refused to bow to evidence. ...

— The Necessity of Atheism • Dr. D.M. Brooks

... evil. The girl well knew that this was an hour when he needed careful watching and when to leave him unguarded, even temporarily, meant disaster. Rouletta clenched her chattering teeth and tried to ignore the chills that raced ...

— The Winds of Chance • Rex Beach

... no woman likes. Will you tell me what girl in your world, who approaches the qualitative standard set by Valerie West, would go about by day or evening with any man except her brother? Valerie does. What girl would be fearless enough to ignore the cast-iron fetters of her caste? Valerie West is a law unto herself—a law as sweet and good and excellent and as inflexible as any law made by men to restrain women's liberty, arouse them to unhappy self-consciousness and infect them with suspicion. Every one of you are the terrified slaves ...

— The Common Law • Robert W. Chambers

... putting himself to the cost of a wholesale fiction, the writer would have used his privilege more freely for his own advantage. Whereas the author of these memoirs clearly writes under the coercion and restraint of a notorious reality, that would not suffer him to ignore or to modify the leading facts. Then, as to the objection that few people or none have an experience presenting such uniformity of perilous adventure, a little closer attention shows that the experience in this case is not uniform; ...

— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey

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