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Answer for the clue "Rating indignation as a symbolic thing? ", 7 letters:
saltire

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n. 1 (context heraldiccharge English) An ordinary (geometric design) in the shape of an X. It usually occupies the entire field in which it is placed. 2 The Saint Andrew's cross, the flag of Scotland

Usage examples of saltire.

The images never ceased to horrify and outrage him - the Saint would hang there, a limb painfully nailed to each bar on the Saltire cross he was crucified on, a cross-shaped like an X.

He spent days fashioning the expensive beams of oak into fifty saltire crosses.

Instead of the suffering saint, it was himself nailed to the saltire cross, him bleeding onto the heavy wooden beams, him feeling life ebb and flow from his wounds.

Confederate flag waved bravely over the Capitol, red canton with blue saltire cross and thirteen stars on a white ground.

Hrorik followed the Eastmarch standard, golden suns and a silver saltire on blue.

The murdered sentries had each had a saltire cross slashed across their brows, as by a hunting-knife.

Above the fireplace were rows of heraldic shields with the blazonings of the family and of its alliances, the fatal saltire cross breaking out on each of them.

A yellow ochre building with imitation battlements and a blue Saltire flag.

For the umpteenth time Georgina glanced round the dining room of the Saltire Hotel where she was booked under an assumed name.

Nat Morgan had a very interesting lunch meeting today, in the Atrium Restaurant, in the Saltire Court office block, in Edinburgh.

James Wilder, his secretary, with intimation that young Lord Saltire, ten years old, his only son and heir, was about to be committed to my charge.

These boys saw and heard nothing, so that it is certain that young Saltire did not pass out that way.

It was then that we ascertained that Lord Saltire had not been alone in his flight.

Here was the undersized saltire, the blue and white flag of Scotland, he had bought for his father when he had stopped off for a weekend in Edinburgh on his way home from Frankfurt, just last summer.

He glanced at the entrance to the resort, where the Union Jack and the Saltire of Scotland snapped in the summer breeze.