dignify
verb (used with object)
to confer honor or dignity upon; honor; ennoble.
dignifies
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present tense formof dignify (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Your marches are full of empty promises and until you take action that dignifies and respects Black women, I have no choice but to ignore you.
From Salon ● Nov. 15, 2020
But Chalfant, 74, the winner of last year’s Obie Award for lifetime achievement, complicates and dignifies the material.
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2019
Heat, however, neither disguises nor dignifies their narcissism of small differences.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 9, 2019
I am so grateful that New York state dignifies immigrants to offer them Medicaid.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 30, 2017
Its obligation is instinctive, its benefits immediate and palpable; and it gives a consecration to individual life that dignifies and chastens, while it calls into exercise all our faculties.”
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by G. G. Findlay
