Dignify vs Lignify - What's the difference?
dignify | lignify |
to invest with dignity or honour
to give distinction to
to exalt in rank
to honor.
To become wood.
(botany): To develop woody tissue as a result of incrustation of lignin during secondary growth.
(intransitive), (by extension ): To become rigid or fixed, like something made of wood.
To turn into wood; to make ligneous.
As verbs the difference between dignify and lignify
is that dignify is to invest with dignity or honour while lignify is to become wood.dignify
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- Your worth will dignify our feast. - B. Jonson.