indignify

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English

Etymology

From Latin indignus (“unworthy”) +‎ -fy.

Verb

indignify (third-person singular simple present indignifies, present participle indignifying, simple past and past participle indignified)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To treat with disdain or indignity; to contemn.
    • 1595, Ed. Spencer , “Colin Clouts Come Home Againe”, in Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: ">…] T C for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      Therefore , in closure of a thankful mind , I deem it best to hold eternally Their bounteous deeds and noble favours shrin ' d , Than by discourse them to indignify

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “indignify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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