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Definition of Indignity
1. Noun. An affront to one's dignity or self-esteem.
Definition of Indignity
1. n. Any action toward another which manifests contempt for him; an offense against personal dignity; unmerited contemptuous treatment; contumely; incivility or injury, accompanied with insult.
Definition of Indignity
1. Noun. degradation, debasement or humiliation ¹
2. Noun. an affront to one's dignity or pride ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Indignity
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Indignity
Literary usage of Indignity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and by United States Congress, Thomas Hart Benton (1863)
"And now, sir, it is proposed that ehe shall he made an exception, and subjected
to the indignity of being mixed up with a subject of which she ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reportsby Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"He thought the aggression was piratical, and that it was an indignity to the ...
It was a hostile acl, an indignity to the nation, and a trespass upon its ..."
3. An exposition of the Creed by John Pearson, Apostles' creed, Edward Burton (1847)
"that dishonour upon any free-man, and the greatest indignity which the most
undeserving (o) Roman could possibly suffer in ..."
4. Biographical Sketch of Linton Stephens, (late Associate Justice of the by James D. Waddell (1877)
"... and the explanation should be a very short and pointed one: simply that we
had punished indignity and insolence as they deserved: that could give no ..."
5. Mark Twain: The Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"... APPENDIX J THE indignity PUT UPON THE REMAINS OF GEORGE HOLLAND BY THE REV.
MR. ... indignity ..."
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