Antonyms for dignify

Grammar : Verb

Spell : dig-nuh-fahy

Phonetic Transcription : ˈdɪg nəˌfaɪ

Definition of dignify

Origin : mid-15c., from Middle French dignifier, from Medieval Latin dignificare "make worthy," from Latin dignus (see dignity) + -ficare, from facere "to make, do" (see factitious). Related: Dignification; dignified; dignifying.

verb make honorable; glorify

Example sentences :

What we dignify by the name of reason is just as often a mere prompting of instinct.
Extract from : « Gerald Fitzgerald » by Charles James Lever

And yet that is precisely what you dignify with the name of compensation.
Extract from : « Sir Jasper Carew » by Charles James Lever

Will it vindicate your memory, uphold your fame, and dignify your motives?
Extract from : « A Day's Ride » by Charles James Lever

To elevate and dignify her is to elevate and dignify the world.
Extract from : « Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women » by George Sumner Weaver

I 'm not even going to dignify this letter by replying to it.
Extract from : « The Cross-Cut » by Courtney Ryley Cooper

Nothing could dignify Pradon's play, as nothing could really degrade that of Racine.
Extract from : « A History of French Literature » by Edward Dowden

I can recollect no process which I should now dignify with the term of thought.
Extract from : « The World I Live In » by Helen Keller

One bit of woodland, however, was beginning to dignify the valley.
Extract from : « Winning the Wilderness » by Margaret Hill McCarter

To call it a room was to dignify it by a title to which it could lay no real claim.
Extract from : « To Love » by Margaret Peterson

A love so deep and sure, so broad and sweet—could it not dignify any woman's life?
Extract from : « A Reversion To Type » by Josephine Daskam

Synonyms for dignify

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