indign
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Middle French indigne, from Latin indignus, from in- (“un-”) + dignus (“worthy, dignified”).
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Adjective edit
indign (comparative more indign, superlative most indign)
- (archaic) Unworthy, undeserving.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- 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
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Translations edit
unworthy — see unworthy
disgraceful — see disgraceful
unbecoming — see unbecoming