0 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.
In this passage the machine, like the human laborer, is exceptionally complex and dignified for its simple purposes, its simple - and therefore innocuous and innocent - tasks.
At a minimum, liberalism should not give these values priority but should see policy as the means to enhance democracy through equitable resource allocation and dignified living conditions.
Of all natural sciences, we only appreciated anatomy, the science of human being, and especially the anatomy of the brain, as dignified enough for the attention of lyubomudry.
As such it dignified the authors and their texts; it also contributed to placing them, like the authors of antiquity, in the past rather than in the present.
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.
Participation itself dignifies people if they are doing something about their own lives.
In fact, it is dignifying it somewhat to call it a long-term economic strategy.
