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Dignified

adjective

Having or expressing dignity; especially formality or stateliness in bearing or appearance. "The director of the school was a dignified white-haired gentleman"

Having or showing self-esteem. Synonyms: self-respectful, self-respecting.

Dignify

verb

(past & past part. dignified; pres. part. dignifying)

Confer dignity or honor upon. Synonym: ennoble.

Raise the status of.

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"Dignified" Quotes from Famous Books

... fails to catch Dante's grand style; he does not even write a style at all. It is too constrained and awkward to be dignified, and dignity is an indispensable element of style. Without dignity we may write clearly, or nervously, or racily, but we have not attained to a style. This is the second shortcoming of Mr. Cary's ...

— The Unseen World and Other Essays • John Fiske

... for a brown-paper parcel was the nearest approach to a governess which met their gaze, and the return to the drawing-room was conducted in a much more leisurely and dignified manner than the exit. For the first time the awful possibility of failure seemed to ...

— Betty Trevor • Mrs. G. de Horne Vaizey

... forty years, the purpose to honour the love that was in him, and to please Hilda, the outcome of that love. All that he did seemed to acquire directness and perfection of detail, all that he said was dignified by a tender thought for this child of an adored vision, until those who lived with him were amazed at his wisdom and kindness, and wondered whether the world had ever held his ...

— Greifenstein • F. Marion Crawford

... yes—and Red Feather, him talk about them, talk, talk, always say me be white with the white people some day. This is the day. You make me like mother was. You civilize me—begin!" She regarded him with dignified attention, her little hands locked about her blanket where it lay folded below her knees. The cloud had vanished from her face and her eyes sparkled ...

— Lahoma • John Breckenridge Ellis

... of the pendulum is going to make the coming season a stately one. It will be correct to be haughty and dignified. Features will be de rigueur, and aquiline noses will be very much worn. Dancing is to be deliberate and majestic, and partners will not touch each other; as Teddy Foljambe put it, "Soccer dancing will be in and Rugby ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 4, 1914 • Various

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