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Noun

indignation (countable and uncountable, plural indignations)

  • An anger aroused by something perceived as an indignity, notably an offense or injustice.
    • ✤ He protested in indignation.
    • ✤ 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.1
  • A self-righteous anger or disgust.

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˌɪn.dɪɡˈneɪ.ʃən/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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Footnotes

  1. 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: ↩

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