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Definition of Indignation
Indignation

The feeling excited by that which is unworthy, base, or disgraceful; anger mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence.

The effect of anger; punishment.

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Indignation Quotations

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The question is this, "Is man an ape or an angel?" My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence the contrary view, which is I believe, foreign to the conscience of humanity.
Benjamin Disraeli

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
Bertrand Russell

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
Jose Marti

Indignation Translations

indignation in French is indignation
indignation in Italian is sdegno
indignation in Latin is indignatio
indignation in Norwegian is harme
indignation in Swedish is harm


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