Crossword clues for dignified
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dignified \Dig"ni*fied\, a. Marked with dignity; stately; as, a dignified judge.
dignify \dig"ni*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dignified; p. pr. & vb. n. Dignifying.] [OF. dignifier, fr. LL. dignificare; L. dignus worthy + ficare (in comp.), facere to make. See Deign, and Fact.] To invest with dignity or honor; to make illustrious; to give distinction to; to exalt in rank; to honor.
Your worth will dignify our feast.
--B. Jonson.
Syn: To exalt; elevate; prefer; advance; honor; illustrate; adorn; ennoble.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
past participle adjective from dignify; 1660s in sense "ranking as a dignitary;" 1812 in sense "having a dignified manner."
Wiktionary
respectable v
(en-past of: dignify)
WordNet
adj. having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance; "her dignified demeanor"; "the director of the school was a dignified white-haired gentleman" [ant: undignified]
having or showing self-esteem [syn: self-respecting, self-respectful]
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Usage examples of "dignified".
So I walked stiff and dignified amain, that dog in step with me the while.
Alastair Bing, with the dignified coldness of an irritated man who thinks that a vast fuss is being made over nothing.
The birdman stood very tall now, his dark eyes calm, his entire bearing dignified and proud, his dark red wings held out slightly away from his body.
It was a most fortunate move, for next second the dignified crowd of Kukuanas uttered a simultaneous yell of horror, and bolted back some yards.
The Bucentaur did not return directly to the quay, to disburden itself of its grave and dignified load.
She had, naturally, a grand, dignified air, which was in strange contrast to the grotesque buffoonery of her poethusband.
She then left me, and I could not help thinking her a very interesting woman, as her speech was as dignified as her appearance.
I was sorry to have deprived the people of Barcelona of the only amusement they had in the evening, and resolved to stay indoors, thinking that would be the most dignified course I could adopt.
Tibey could easily call the infamous, albeit intelligent and dignified, assassin, El Cociloco, but it was necessary in the crime of cuckoldry to do your own revenging.
He held himself very straight as he entered the house, and the boyish grin with which he customarily greeted the butler had given place to a dignified nod.
Villiers made a calm and effective reply, in which he especially directed his skill as a debater to the exposure of the fallacies of Sir Robert Peel, whose ignorance or partizanship he handled with a calm and dignified severity.
It used to upset my gravity entirely to see a crowd of grave and dignified Captains, Majors and Colonels going through this nonsensical drollery with all the abandon of professional burnt-cork artists.
Through the open door Mathieu had caught sight of Mademoiselle Herminie, the daughter of the house, ensconced in one of the red velvet armchairs near the window, and dreamily perusing a novel there, while her mother, standing up, extolled her goods in her most dignified way to the old gentleman, who gravely contemplated the procession of nurses and seemed unable to make up his mind.
She could hate herself for all this later with her more dignified fem half.
All the great German emperors in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, who saw the evils of feudalism, and attempted to break it up and revive imperial Rome, became involved in quarrels with the chiefs of the religious society, and failed, because the interest of the Popes, as feudal sovereigns and Italian princes, and the interests of the dignified clergy, were for the time bound up with the feudal society, though their Roman culture and civilization made them at heart hostile to it.