dignify

verb4

1. •
   To invest with dignity or honour.

   • Your worth will dignify our feast. — 1616
2. •
   To treat as worthy or acceptable; to indulge or condone by acknowledging.

   • I will not dignify that comment with a response.
3. •
   To give distinction to.

   • Or, when more deeply moved, he would exclaim-- "As noble thoughts the inward being grace, So noble whiskers dignify the face." — 1918
4. •
   To exalt in rank.