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indignation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indignation \In`dig*na"tion\, n. [F. indignation, L. indignatio. See Indign.]
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The feeling excited by that which is unworthy, base, or disgraceful; anger mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence.
--Shak.Indignation expresses a strong and elevated disapprobation of mind, which is also inspired by something flagitious in the conduct of another.
--Cogan.When Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai.
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The effect of anger; punishment.
--Shak.Hide thyself . . . until the indignation be overpast.
--Is. xxvi. 20.Syn: Anger; ire wrath; fury; rage. See Anger.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, from Old French indignacion or directly from Latin indignationem (nominative indignatio) "indignation, displeasure," noun of action from past participle stem of indignari "regard as unworthy, be angry or displeased at," from indignus "unworthy," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + dignus "worthy" (see dignity).
Wiktionary
n. 1 An anger aroused by something perceived as an indignity, notably an offense or injustice. 2 A self-righteous anger or disgust.
WordNet
n. a feeling of righteous anger [syn: outrage]
Wikipedia
Indignation is a novel by Philip Roth, released by Houghton Mifflin on September 16, 2008. It is his twenty-ninth book.
Indignation is a feeling related to one's perception of having been offended or wronged and a tendency to undo that wrongdoing by retaliation.
Indignation may also refer to:
- IndigNation, a gay pride event
- Indignation (novel), a 2008 novel by Philip Roth
- Indignation (film), a 2016 film based on the Roth novel
The word indignation is used to describe strong displeasure at something considered unjust, offensive, insulting or unrighteous.
Indignation is an emotion, and is considered to be a type of anger. Indignation is often composed of anger, disgust, contempt, and resentment. Simply, indignation can be defined as anger that is caused by something that is unfair or wrong. In more detail, indignation is defined as, "a discrete social emotion specifying disapproval of a blameworthy action explicitly perceived as violating the objective order, and, implicitly perceived as injurious to the self-concept". Indignation is an attribution-related emotion causing this emotion to be very personal to those experiencing it. Indignation has been described as the opposite emotion to respect even though it has become synonymous with anger, whose opposite is gratitude, in the modern English usage.
Indignation is a 2016 American drama film, directed and written by James Schamus, making his feature directorial debut, and based on the Philip Roth novel Indignation (2008). The film is set mostly in Ohio, in the early 1950s, and stars Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, Tracy Letts, Linda Emond, Danny Burstein, Ben Rosenfield, Pico Alexander, Philip Ettinger and Noah Robbins.
The film had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 24, 2016. The film was released on July 29, 2016, by Roadside Attractions and Summit Entertainment.
Usage examples of "indignation".
In the meanwhile, the episode had shown that Adams was quite as capable as ever of furious indignation.
It is Aunt Agata the nun, sister of Grandfather Mariano, who is most determined to defend his rights, and it is she who sticks her neck out in paroxysms of indignation.
His indignation was kindled by the report, that a rival chieftain, that Sarus, the personal enemy of Adolphus, and the hereditary foe of the house of Balti, had been received into the palace.
But the meanest of the populace were affected with shame and indignation when they beheld their sovereign enter the lists as a gladiator, and glory in a profession which the laws and manners of the Romans had branded with the justest note of infamy.
The Great King, who, from an exalted throne, beheld the misfortunes of his arms, sounded, with reluctant indignation, the signal of the retreat, and suspended for some hours the prosecution of the attack.
When Lord George Bentinck first threw himself into the breach, he was influenced only by a feeling of indignation at the manner in which he thought the Conservative party had been trifled with by the government and Lord Stanley, his personal friend and political leader, deserted by a majority of the cabinet.
The just indignation of an outraged and deeply injured people will teach the Illinois Ape to repeat his race and retrace his journey across the borders of the Free Negro States still more rapidly than he came.
But, like everything he wrote, it breathes that deep sympathy for the sorrows of humanity, and indignation against its oppressors, which make it worthy of his name.
To allow the indignation against him to quiet down, Casanova went to pass some days at Trieste, then returned to Venice to put his affairs in order.
Notwithstanding these rigorous precautions, the emperor Constantine, after a reign of twenty-five years, still deplores the venal and oppressive administration of justice, and expresses the warmest indignation that the audience of the judge, his despatch of business, his seasonable delays, and his final sentence, were publicly sold, either by himself or by the officers of his court.
Like the wicked man who fleeth when no man pursueth, Charles trembled lest the indignation of the people, of the saint, and of God should crush her in punishment of her sins.
His Galwegian indignation came softly to Minogue, who thought of the long, open bogroads by Clifden with the clouds rolling in over the horizon, sea on the air.
She knew that this particular memory was being called up by another, the memory of the tapes of the various escrow hearings on Helvetia, of a face more attractive than beautiful, mobile and expressive, shifting between disgust, deep interest, flashes of sudden amusement, the wry appreciation of absurdity, indignation and satisfaction.
This time Kerry took the acorn, and they continued the improvisation, developing it into a story with a squirrel for a villain, until the custodian switched off the houselights from backstage and they both shouted in indignation.
Ere the words died away, the Nazarenes, moved by sudden indignation, caught up the echo, and, in the words of one of their favorite hymns, shouted aloud:- THE WARNING HYMN OF THE NAZARENES Around--about--for ever near thee, God--OUR GOD--shall mark and hear thee!