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
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
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
Shakespeare and Jonson have given perpetuity to this term of the vocabulary in vogue, and Jonson has dignified it by transferring it to his comic art.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli
This is the syllogism which has dignified the foregoing collection of occurrences into grave symptoms of an increase of popular despotism.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 20, July, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
