indignation

From Middle English indignacioun, borrowed from Old French indignation, from Latin indignātiō, from indignor (“to scorn, resent”), from indignus (“unworthy, not fitting”), from in- (“not”) + dignus (“worthy, appropriate”). Attested since ca. 1374. Doublet of indignatio.

• IPA^(key): /ˌɪn.dɪɡˈneɪ.ʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

indignation (countable and uncountable, plural indignations)

1. An anger aroused by something perceived as an indignity, notably an offense or injustice.

   He protested in indignation.

   • c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i], page 14, column 1:

     The Iron of it ſelfe, though heate red hot, / Approaching neere theſe eyes, would drinke my teares, / And quench this fierie indignation, / Euen in the matter of mine innocence.

2. A self-righteous anger or disgust.

• deign
• dignify
• indign
• indignant
• undignified

Borrowed from Latin indignātiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.di.ɲa.sjɔ̃/

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indignation f (plural indignations)

1. Indignation

• indigne
• indignement
• indigner
• indignité

• “indignation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

indignation

1. alternative form of indignacioun