Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Archaic Unworthy.
- adj. Obsolete Shameful; disgraceful.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- adj. archaic Unworthy, undeserving.
- adj. obsolete disgraceful
- adj. obsolete unbecoming
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Unworthy; undeserving; disgraceful; degrading.
Etymologies
- From Middle French indigne, from Latin indignus, from in- ("un-") + dignus ("worthy, dignified"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English indigne, from Old French, from Latin indignus : in-, not; see in-1 + dignus, worthy; see dek- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Seeing my heart is wholly his spurns love as sin indign.”
“Wo name, my friends? "the Mwangaza is yelling at us indign andy" This strange Syndicate that has dragged us here today has no name?”
“Would make the humblest penitent of sinner most indign.”
“M. de Narbonne, somewhat indign de la mauvaise foi, and excd des longueurs de son adversaire, was not quite so gentle with him, and I was glad to perceive that he meant to resist, in some degree at least, the exorbitant demands of his landlord.”
“Sometimes I have to laugh when sportswriters and fans get all indign ...”
“And the moral murder of my child is to be my punishment for daring to turn a deaf ear to the indign passion of a brute!”
“Exceeds not mine for him nor more devotion shows, but he * Seeing my heart is wholly his spurns love as sin indign. ”
“M. 's book against Vorstius and Arminius, and noted your zeal to deliver the majesty of God from the vain and indign comprehensions of heresy and degenerate philosophy, as you had by your pen formerly endeavoured to deliver kings from the usurpation of Rome, _perculsit illico animum_ that God would set shortly upon you some visible favour, _and let me not live if I thought not of the taking away of that man_. ”
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adjectives
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