dignifying

comparative more dignifying · superlative most dignifying

1. Conveying or conducive to a sense of dignity.

   Asking for such an honorable favor, for such a noble need, is very dignifying.

   2021, Daniel Darling, Ministers of Reconciliation

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   Let it be remembered that whilst memory travelled over more than four thousand years of the history of man, it could not light upon an age more dignifying to human nature than the present.

   1838, T. F. Thomas, Familiar Lectures, on the doctrine of the Trinity, and other subjects, page 50

   Besides the irresistible contagion of his merriment, the flashes of wit, the tenderness of his sentiment, the wild laughter of his satiric scorn of cant, and priestcraft, and self-righteousness, the ardor of his patriotism, the gayety of his social songs, there is a tone in his graver writing which breathes over the hearts of his countrymen, and of all the world, the highest and most dignifying feeling that ever hallowed the heart of man.

   1847, William Howitt, Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, page 387

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of dignify