dignifying

Adjective

dignifying (comparative more dignifying, superlative most dignifying)

1. Conveying or conducive to a sense of dignity.
   • 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...1847, William Howitt, Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, page 387