indignation

English

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^(key): /ˌɪn.dɪɡˈneɪ.ʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

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.
   • 1981 March, Leszek Kolakowski, “Miliband's Anti-Kolakowski”, in Political Studies, volume 29, number 1, Sage Publishing, →DOI, →ISSN, page 124:

     Having expressed his indignation at the idea of continuity from the young Marx to the old Marx and from Marx to Lenin, Miliband appears no less offended by my stressing the continuity from Leninism to Stalinism.

Related terms

• deign
• dignify
• indign
• indignant
• undignified

Translations

anger aroused by some perceived offense or injustice

• Belarusian: узбурэ́нне n (uzburénnje), абурэ́нне n (aburénnje)
• Bulgarian: възмущение (bg) n (văzmuštenie)
• Catalan: indignació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 憤慨 / 愤慨 (zh) (fènkǎi)

• Dutch: verontwaardiging (nl) f
• Finnish: suuttumus (fi)
• French: indignation (fr) f
• German: Empörung (de) f, Entrüstung (de) f
• Greek: αγανάκτηση (el) f (aganáktisi)

  Ancient Greek: ἀγανάκτησις f (aganáktēsis)

• Hungarian: felháborodás (hu), méltatlankodás (hu)
• Japanese: 憤慨 (ja) (ふんがい, fungai), 憤り (ja) (いきどおり, ikidōri), 憤懣 (ふんまん, funman)
• Korean: 분개 (ko) (bun'gae)
• Macedonian: правдољубивост (pravdoljubivost)
• Māori: whakatakariri, takariri
• Middle English: indignacioun
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: indignasjon m

• Polish: oburzenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: indignação (pt) f
• Romanian: indignare (ro) f
• Russian: возмуще́ние (ru) n (vozmuščénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: indignacija (sh) f, negodovanje (sh) n
• Spanish: indignación (es) f
• Swedish: förtrytelse (sv) c, harm (sv) c
• Tagalog: ngupinyo, pangungupinyo
• Ukrainian: збу́рення n (zbúrennja), обу́рення n (obúrennja)

self-righteous anger or disgust

• Bulgarian: негодувание (bg) n (negoduvanie)
• Catalan: indignació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 義憤 / 义愤 (zh) (yìfèn), 義憤填膺 / 义愤填膺 (zh) (yìfèntiányīng)

• Dutch: gebelgdheid f
• Finnish: närkästys (fi)
• French: indignation (fr) f
• German: Empörung (de) f, Entrüstung (de) f
• Greek: αγανάκτηση (el) f (aganáktisi)

  Ancient Greek: ἀγανάκτησις f (aganáktēsis)

• Hungarian: felháborodás (hu), méltatlankodás (hu)
• Japanese: 義憤 (ja) (gifun)
• Korean: 의분 (uibun)
• Māori: takariri
• Middle English: indignacioun
• Portuguese: indignação (pt) f
• Romanian: indignare (ro) f
• Russian: негодова́ние (ru) n (negodovánije), возмуще́ние (ru) n (vozmuščénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: indignacija (sh) f
• Spanish: indignación (es) f

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• Norwegian: ^{(please verify)} indignert
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} indignación (es) f

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin indignātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.di.ɲa.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

indignation f (plural indignations)

1. Indignation

Related terms

• indigne
• indignement
• indigner
• indignité

Further reading

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

Middle English

Noun

indignation

1. alternative form of indignacioun