Dignifying

Quick meaning: Dignifying is an adjective meaning Conveying or conducive to a sense of dignity.

Meaning

Conveying or conducive to a sense of dignity.

More Meanings

1. present participle and gerund of dignify

Example Sentences

Asking for such an honorable favor, for such a noble need, is very dignifying.

Let it be remembered that whilst memory travelled over more than four thousand years of the history of man, it could not light upon an age more dignifying to human nature than the present.

Besides the irresistible contagion of his merriment, the flashes of wit, the tenderness of his sentiment, the wild laughter of his satiric scorn of cant, and priestcraft, and self-righteousness, the ardor of his patriotism, the gayety of his social songs, there is a tone in his graver writing which breathes over the hearts of his countrymen, and of all the world, the highest and most dignifying feeling that ever hallowed the heart of man.

Synonyms for dignifying

Depending on context, synonyms include noble, ennobling.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ennobling, noble, demeaning, debasing, denigrating, belittling.

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