Antonyms for dignify


Grammar : Verb
Spell : dig-nuh-fahy
Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɪg nəˌfaɪ


Definition of dignify

Origin :
  • mid-15c., from Middle French dignifier, from Medieval Latin dignificare "make worthy," from Latin dignus (see dignity) + -ficare, from facere "to make, do" (see factitious). Related: Dignification; dignified; dignifying.
  • verb make honorable; glorify
Example sentences :
  • What we dignify by the name of reason is just as often a mere prompting of instinct.
  • Extract from : « Gerald Fitzgerald » by Charles James Lever
  • And yet that is precisely what you dignify with the name of compensation.
  • Extract from : « Sir Jasper Carew » by Charles James Lever
  • Will it vindicate your memory, uphold your fame, and dignify your motives?
  • Extract from : « A Day's Ride » by Charles James Lever
  • To elevate and dignify her is to elevate and dignify the world.
  • Extract from : « Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women » by George Sumner Weaver
  • I 'm not even going to dignify this letter by replying to it.
  • Extract from : « The Cross-Cut » by Courtney Ryley Cooper
  • Nothing could dignify Pradon's play, as nothing could really degrade that of Racine.
  • Extract from : « A History of French Literature » by Edward Dowden
  • I can recollect no process which I should now dignify with the term of thought.
  • Extract from : « The World I Live In » by Helen Keller
  • One bit of woodland, however, was beginning to dignify the valley.
  • Extract from : « Winning the Wilderness » by Margaret Hill McCarter
  • To call it a room was to dignify it by a title to which it could lay no real claim.
  • Extract from : « To Love » by Margaret Peterson
  • A love so deep and sure, so broad and sweet—could it not dignify any woman's life?
  • Extract from : « A Reversion To Type » by Josephine Daskam

Synonyms for dignify

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