Persistence ignorance is typically defined as the ability to persist & retrieve standard .NET objects (or POCOs if you really insist on giving them a name). And a seemin
A persistant ignorant class, is a class that is not tied to a persistancy framework.
That is, the class has absolutely no knowledge that there's a persistancy framework present, it does not inherit from a class that is defined by that framework nor does it implement an interface that is required for that persistance framework in order to work.