Dignify vs Aggrandize - What's the difference?
dignify | aggrandize | Related terms |
to invest with dignity or honour
to give distinction to
to exalt in rank
to honor.
To make great; to enlarge; to increase.
To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; applied to persons, countries, etc.
* Prescott
To make appear great or greater; to exalt.
To increase or become great.
Dignify is a related term of aggrandize.
As verbs the difference between dignify and aggrandize
is that dignify is to invest with dignity or honour while aggrandize is to make great; to enlarge; to increase.dignify
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Verb
- Your worth will dignify our feast. - B. Jonson.
Synonyms
* exalt * elevate * prefer * advance * honor * illustrate * adorn * ennobleaggrandize
English
Alternative forms
* aggrandise (mainly British)Verb
(aggrandiz)- to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress
- his scheme for aggrandizing his son
- (Charles Lamb)