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 Translation for 'indignation' from English to Russian
NOUN   an indignation | indignations
SYNO indignation | outrage
возмущение {с}indignation
негодование {с} [книжн.]indignation
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Usage Examples English
  • The publication of the first volume of his Church history in 1841 aroused a storm of indignation among Protestants, to whom his unflattering account of the Protestant Reformation was distasteful.
  • There was considerable expression of public indignation that it should have been suggested that he could have any right as against the state to withhold evidence on the ground that he had put forward.
  • One of the Celestials remarks that all that came of the experiment was "negativism, lust and vindictive indignation," which is all that humans have.
  • During the occupation, women who fraternized with German soldiers had aroused indignation among some citizens. Following the liberation, British soldiers had to intervene to prevent revenge attacks.
  • The newspaper answered by defining the professors' indignation as "cynical and untrue", and claiming that both of them were well-respected figures and did not express similar disdain regarding left-wing dictatorships such as Cuba's.

  • In March 2016, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine started an investigation into AntAC. "Kyiv Post" described the investigation as having "triggered civil society's indignation".
  • An indignation rally was done by numerous groups on December 21, 2020, at the Boy Scout Circle, Quezon City.
  • Kerby-Fulton completed her PhD, titled "The voice of honest indignation : A study of reformist apocalypticism in relation to Piers Plowman" at the University of York in 1986.
  • In 2018 the authorities of the department Haute-Savoie came to terms with the laments and indignation inexorably expressed by Peillex.
  • Upon reactions and public indignation, the TFF stepped back.

  • Aristotle wrote in his Rhetoric, Book II, Chapter 9, “indignation is the emotion most directly opposed to pity.” Aristotle also writes “Indignation is pain caused by the sight of undeserved good fortune.” The terms indignation and indignatio are closely related in part by their common negative emotionality and anger.
  • The stories she tells in "Singin' and Swingin contain "strong forceful statements that convey firmly her indignation and ire about black displacement".
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