dignify
verb (used with object)
to confer honor or dignity upon; honor; ennoble.
had dignified
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past perfectof dignify.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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That attempt failed, but only after then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, together with Sherman, had dignified North Korean tyrant Kim Jong Il with a visit to Pyongyang in late October, 2000.
From Forbes ● Nov. 7, 2014
The other suites in the book were only distinguished by numbers, but this one the composer had dignified with the name of "l'Areopagita."
From The Lost Stradivarius by John Meade Falkner
This cavern was held by Spite as a sort of country seat or castle, which he had dignified with the name of Aranea Hall.
From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by Henry Christopher McCook
On the wooden "stoop" of the place Webb had dignified by calling a "hotel" were lounging a few men who had scarcely stirred when Webb in salutation had flourished his whip at them.
From Happy House by Jane D. Abbott
This settlement he had dignified with the name of New Jerusalem.
From The United Empire Loyalists : A Chronicle of the Great Migration by W. Stewart (William Stewart) Wallace
