Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To treat unworthily or unbecomingly.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To treat disdainfully or with indignity; to contemn.
Examples
“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
“Everyone knows that it's imprudent to indignify a somebody.”
“Now, what if I don't indignify myself to the extent of crawlin 'under that line fence? ”
“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!”
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