0 present participle of dignify
1 to cause something to be respected and considered important
Local populations no longer ascribed to them any dignifying quality, and increasingly demanded from them a total participation in the war effort.
Friendship between doctor and patient, with its dignifying and therapeutic properties, should take the place of the contractual, impersonal model.
Intellectual distinction could console a nation whose military fortunes were sagging, dignifying the savant with a patriotic role that conveniently coincided with his own personal quest for fame.
That is a far cry from dignifying the writing off of losses with the name of public dividend capital.
In fact, it is dignifying it somewhat to call it a long-term economic strategy.
Therefore, by taking it at that rational level, it is dignifying what is put before us.
I think that would be dignifying it by too great a name.
All of these are definite undertakings which will have the effect dignifying the countryside.
