(v. t.) To invest with dignity or honor; to make illustrious; to give distinction to; to exalt in rank; to honor.
Example Sentences:
(1) With all attempts at mediation failing - Gbagbo has repeatedly rejected offers of a "safe and dignified" exit - the African Union reaffirmed its recognition of Ouattara as the rightful leader of Ivory Coast in March.
(2) But all are agreed that his final retirement was dignified.
(3) The group’s trip to Rome is designed to coincide with a workshop hosted by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences on Tuesday called Protect the Earth, Dignify Humanity, which will feature speeches by Ban Ki-moon, UN secretary-general, and Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs.
(4) Lawrence is said to bristle at the now-cliched description of her as "dignified".
(5) As a small group of Abbado's relatives, including two of his children, looked on, Barenboim, La Scala's current music director, appeared quietly moved as the commemorative performance ended after about 20 minutes to dignified applause from the piazza.
(6) Due to a decade of tri-annual BBC2 exposure, dogged Dantean circuits of provincial comedy venues, conscious manipulation of vulnerable broadsheet opinion formers and undeserved good luck, I am now popular enough to have caught the eye of touts or, as we now dignify them, Secondary Ticketing Agents™.
(7) Len McCluskey, the general secretary of the Unite union, met Corbyn and his deputy leader, Tom Watson, on Tuesday in what some Corbyn loyalists hope will be the first step towards a brokered deal – involving MPs, unions and the party’s national executive committee – that could ensure a dignified exit for the embattled leader.
(8) 2006 : Fifa vice-president Jack Warner welcomes questions from an investigative reporter asking about alleged corruption: "I would spit on you – but I will not dignify you with my spit ... go fuck yourself ... no foreigner, particularly a white foreigner, will come to my country and harass me."
(9) Will's singing is completely English; dignified, buttoned-up even; the tune is country-tinged and classic.
(10) It was a brave and dignified statement that must have cost him hours of agonising to make.
(11) President Bush maintained a silence that could possibly be characterised as dignified.
(12) Each of these elements was crucial to the legislation’s dignified debate and ultimate success.
(13) Struggling to maintain his composure, Ed, the 40-year-old former energy secretary, made a short, dignified acceptance speech in which he heaped praise on his brother and the other defeated candidates, Ed Balls, Andy Burnham and Diane Abbott .
(14) The arithmetic might still have prevented it, but he would have secured two things: an earlier timing of Brown’s dignified statement standing down to make way for a new Labour leader and, more crucially, far better terms from the Tories.
(15) And to use this term is to dignify a death cult, a death cult that in declaring itself a caliphate has declared war on the world.” Abbott said more than 60 Australians were believed to be fighting with Isis and Al-Nusra and “more than 60 Australians have had their passports suspended to prevent them from joining terrorist groups in the Middle East”.
(16) The left has not resolved the question of giving people a genuine voice at work so as to enact a more dignified workplace.
(17) Abrahams said: “When taken with our plans to defend the NHS and end the Tory crisis of social care , it is clear that only a Labour government will guarantee a dignified living standard for older people.
(18) The slight and dignified Madame Bong drew confidence from the correspondent who used his physical presence to inspire calm rather than threat.
(19) Bit of muttering about justifying selling one's own grandmother Updated at 1.21pm BST 1.06pm BST As Barb Jacobson, of the European Citizen's initiative for a basic income, puts it, a basic income should be high enough for everyone to have a dignified life in society, and to take part in society.
(20) Kay Gilderdale, a dignified women has sat smartly dressed in the dock listening intently as her actions were depicted by the prosecution as an attempt to murder her daughter.