indignant

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INDIG'NANT, adjective [Latin indignans, from indignor, to disdain; in and dignor, dignus.] Affected at once with anger and disdain; feeling the mingled emotions of wrath and scorn or contempt, as when a person is exasperated at one despised, or by a mean action, or by the charge of a dishonorable act. Goliath was indignant at the challenge of David. He strides indignant and with haughty cries To single fight the fairy prince defies.
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