Examples of dignifying

• 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.

• It sets out with apodictic firmness specific claims of their own side, and without even dignifying the other side by name treats its vital concerns with oracular obliqueness.

• Being able to respond to the vulnerability of patients in a way that provides dignifying care is a key concept in the field.

• Earning a decent income in the private sector, it is argued, is also more dignifying than relying on hand-outs.

• The idea of dignifying commonplace objects in this way was originally a shocking challenge to the accepted distinction between what was considered "art" as opposed to "not art".

• Gaskell's style is notable for dignifying the use of local dialect words by putting them into the voice of her characters, and of the narrator.