Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To treat unworthily or unbecomingly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To treat disdainfully or with indignity; to contemn.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, transitive To treat with
disdain orindignity ; tocontemn .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Everyone knows that it's imprudent to indignify a somebody.
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But it's the willingness to indignify others, and the fact that we are still collectively holding our tongues -- as previous generations did about racism -- that lies at the root of many of the problems that vex us today.
Robert Fuller: Racism and Rankism: We Won't Eradicate the One Until We Take on the Other 2008
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Everyone knows that it's imprudent to indignify a somebody.
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Now, what if I don't indignify myself to the extent of crawlin 'under that line fence? "
Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909
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O consider how you indignify (172) and set at nought that great manifestation of God’s love, “God manifested in the flesh,” how you despise his love pledge to sinners, a greater than which he could not give you, because as great as himself!
The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640
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