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Webster 1913 Edition
Indign
In-dign′
,Adj.
Unworthy; undeserving; disgraceful; degrading.
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Webster 1828 Edition
Indign
INDIGN
,Adj.
Definition 2024
indign
indign
English
Adjective
indign (comparative more indign, superlative most indign)
- (archaic) Unworthy, undeserving.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.1:
- even th'Almightie selfe she did maligne, / Because to man so mercifull he was, / And unto all his creatures so benigne, / Sith she her selfe was of his grace indigne […].
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.1:
- (obsolete) disgraceful
- (obsolete) unbecoming
Related terms
Translations
unworthy — see unworthy
disgraceful — see disgraceful
unbecoming — see unbecoming