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- noun Plural form of
indignation .
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Examples
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Their "indignations" opened up a gulf; it flashed upon her, with a shock of mortification for the belated idea, that something would have come out: a piece in the paper, from Mr. Flack, about her portrait and even a little about herself.
The Reverberator Henry James 1879
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He describes angelical visitations, indignations, resignations of sweet humility and strange, angelical messengers.
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In a letter to his son written in 1537, he looked back on a life of vicissitude; "a thousand dangers and hazards, enmities, hatreds, prisonments, despites and indignations".
The Many Lives of Thomas Wyatt by Nicola Shulman - review 2011
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Rather than trying to match indignations, I shall try to touch upon some of the less emotional criticisms of my report on Greece.
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Liberals are independant thinkers and do not march in lock step with their leaders like your ilk (ie, warner, graham, coleman,) you know, the repugs who spouted all the indignations about how horrible iraq is in the senate hearings yesterday, but will promptly follow in lock step with their fearmongering leader, heir dumbya and vote to keep our guys as targets in iraq, just like good little bundists.
Rudy Planning To Spend Part Of 9/11 Anniversary With Noted Basher Of 9/11 Widows 2009
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If I seemed ready to "give the colonels a chance," I was simply trying not to prejudge the situation with predictable liberal indignations.
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Liberals are independant thinkers and do not march in lock step with their leaders like your ilk (ie, warner, graham, coleman,) you know, the repugs who spouted all the indignations about how horrible iraq is in the senate hearings yesterday, but will promptly follow in lock step with their fearmongering leader, heir dumbya and vote to keep our guys as targets in iraq, just like good little bundists.
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He lived a life of segregation with all the insults, indignations and restrictions that go along with a black man who lived to be 94.
Hermene Hartman: John Hope Franklin: A Precious Black Orchid 2009
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Like in Bouchareb's Indigènes, the characters in this film are not humans but walking indignations.
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This is not the place for enlarging disproportionately on certain ideas; nevertheless, while absolutely maintaining our reserves, our restrictions, and even our indignations, we must say that every time we encounter man in the Infinite, either well or ill understood, we feel ourselves overpowered with respect.
Les Miserables 2008
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