dignify
verb (used with object)
to confer honor or dignity upon; honor; ennoble.
has dignified
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present perfectof dignify (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Within it lives a spirit that has dignified the human race since Aesop and before: the spirit that says out what everybody knows is true for keeps.
From Time Magazine Archive
Acceptance by the Metropolitan Museum, profuse with classic pottery, has dignified a career as unceremonious and sincere as that of a medieval illuminator.
From Time Magazine Archive
Far from trying to forget his boyhood miseries, he has dignified them through grit and awareness of the natural beauty around him.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was the stone that was an index of what has been called "the blues" or what one modern writer has dignified by the title "splanchnic neurasthenia."
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
But the chief value of the work seems really to lie in this: it has dignified the rural scenes and the honest rustics of England.
From A Cotswold Village by J. Arthur Gibbs
