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• v  confer dignity or honor upon
• v  raise the status of
• s  investing with dignity or honor
  the dignifying effect of his presence

• It's not just because the West Indian Nobel laureate has the classic gift of mixing ease with eloquence and of deepening, dignifying his most private moments with the high and .
• Unlike the Wyoming statesmen, however, the others were not dignifying their admiration for President Coolidge by formal petitions to him.
• It's time to stop dignifying this man's low games with responses which only increase his power base.

• ennoble
• dignify
• ennobling

Quotes

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• Scott McClellan in New York Times
  Scott McClellan, the White House spokesman, told The Associated Press via an e-mail message, "We are not interested in dignifying something so outlandish and inconceivable with a response."
• Ronald S Lauder in MarketWatch
  Lauder added: "These groups, who claim to hold up values such as peace and mutual understanding, make a mockery of themselves by shamelessly providing a cruel dictator and racist with a platform for his invective. There is no purpose in dignifying...
• Charlie Weis in USA Today
  If I answered by dignifying that, (Bill) Parcells and (Bill) Belichick would humiliate me,Weis said about his coaching mentors when asked about his connection to Rockne. "I've just coached two games and they've played two games. Let's come...