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Dignify

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To invest with dignity or honour. transitive

    "Your worth will dignify our feast."

  2. 2
    raise the status of wordnet
  3. 3
    To give distinction to. transitive

    "Or, when more deeply moved, he would exclaim-- "As noble thoughts the inward being grace, So noble whiskers dignify the face.""

  4. 4
    confer dignity or honor upon wordnet
  5. 5
    To exalt in rank. transitive
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  1. 6
    To treat as worthy or acceptable; to indulge or condone by acknowledging. transitive

    "I will not dignify that comment with a response."

Etymology

From Old French dignifier, from Late Latin dignificare, from dignus (“worthy”) + ficare (in comp.), facere (“to make”). See deign and fact.

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