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Definition of Dignifying
1. Adjective. Investing with dignity or honor. "The ennobling influence of cultural surroundings"
Definition of Dignifying
1. Verb. (present participle of dignify) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dignifying
1. dignify [v] - See also: dignify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dignifying
Literary usage of Dignifying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Essayists: With Prefaces Biographical, Historical and Critical by Lionel Thomas Berguer (1823)
"On the Necessity of dignifying public Officers and Magistrates by personal Merit
and a corresponding Appearance.—Ev. 57. THE condition of human nature is so ..."
2. The British Essayists by James Ferguson (1823)
"On the Necessity of dignifying public Officers and Magistrates by personal Merit
and a corresponding Appearance. THE condition of human nature is so frail, ..."
3. A Selection from the Letters of the Late Sarah Grubb (formerly Sarah Lynes) by Sarah Grubb (1848)
"... dignifying is the truth ! Let her loved be encouraged to possess the truth
and hold it, by giving the full price for it, and never bartering it for ..."
4. Letters on Religious Subjects, Written by Divers Friends, Deceased: First by John Kendall (1831)
"... more dignifying, more beneficial to mankind, and more worthy of the dedication
of all our faculties to espouse and promote, ever was let down from ..."
5. A Dictionary, Hindustani & English: Accompanied by a Reversed Dictionary by Duncan Forbes (1866)
"... ^ftf tit (vide CL>\ itf), a word usually written at the end of a letter, book,
&c., dignifying that it is finished; 'as the Latin Finis, Stc. t, ..."
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