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Indigen vs Indign - What's the difference?

indigen | indign |

As a noun indigen

is an indigene or native.

As an adjective indign is

unworthy, undeserving.

indigen

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An indigene or native.
  • A plant known to be indigenous to a region, rather than a cultigen.

    • indign

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (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 […].
  • (obsolete) disgraceful
  • (obsolete) unbecoming

    • Related terms

    * indignant * indignation * indignity

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