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dignify

/dig-nuh-fahy/US // ˈdɪg nəˌfaɪ //UK // (ˈdɪɡnɪˌfaɪ) //

使得人们感到高贵,使得人们感到自豪,使得人们感到高贵的

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    dig·ni·fied, dig·ni·fy·ing.

    • : to confer honor or dignity upon; honor; ennoble.
    • : to give a high-sounding title or name to; confer unmerited distinction upon: to dignify pedantry by calling it scholarship.

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Examples

  • It began to feel imperative that I tell their stories as bluntly and factually as possible, as a way to honor their lives and dignify their deaths and disappearances.

  • So, sure, you can wear the bracelet and mislead his family into spending their money on things you don’t want, or you can refuse to dignify pouting and return it.

  • On the other hand, many people believe it is important to dignify official government business with a prayer.

  • The tactic—you can't dignify it by calling it strategy—may finally backfire.

  • It is thus that they dignify human nature and glorify human effort, and bring to those who struggle hope and trust.

  • She seemed to dignify with her presence whatever happened to be going on, and made it worth while.

  • Such a mode of proceeding costs us little, but tends much to dignify and exalt us.

  • Incidentally teachers themselves, by thinking more nobly of their tasks, can do much to dignify their calling.

  • The bearing of the new Abbot served of itself to dignify a ceremonial which was deprived of all other attributes of grandeur.