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[ verb ] confer dignity or honor upon
Synonyms Examples "He was dignified with a title" Used in print (Ernest Becker, Zen: A Rational Critique. New York: W.W....)Proponents of Zen to the West emphasize disproportionately the amount of Mahayana_Buddhism in Zen , probably in_order_to dignify the indisputably magical Taoist ideas with more respectable Buddhist metaphysic . |
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[ verb ] raise the status of
Examples "I shall not dignify this insensitive remark with an answer" Related terms |
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