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Dignity   /dˈɪgnəti/   Listen
noun
Dignity  n.  (pl. dignities)  
1.
The state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence.
2.
Elevation; grandeur. "The dignity of this act was worth the audience of kings."
3.
Elevated rank; honorable station; high office, political or ecclesiastical; degree of excellence; preferment; exaltation. "And the king said, What honor and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this?" "Reuben, thou art my firstborn,... the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power."
4.
Quality suited to inspire respect or reverence; loftiness and grace; impressiveness; stateliness; said of mien, manner, style, etc. "A letter written with singular energy and dignity of thought and language."
5.
One holding high rank; a dignitary. "These filthy dreamers... speak evil of dignities."
6.
Fundamental principle; axiom; maxim. (Obs.) "Sciences concluding from dignities, and principles known by themselves."
Synonyms: See Decorum.
To stand upon one's dignity, to have or to affect a high notion of one's own rank, privilege, or character. "They did not stand upon their dignity, nor give their minds to being or to seeming as elegant and as fine as anybody else."





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"Dignity" Quotes from Famous Books



... immediately afterwards, and on his heels—Mr. Morland, dressed as when he walked the hurricane deck daily, his somewhat dull face owning and manifesting a certain dignity. ...
— Hurricane Island • H. B. Marriott Watson
... his "Lives of the Poets") had a present from young Craggs of some South Sea stock, and once supposed himself to be the master of L20,000. His friends, especially Arbuthnot, persuaded him to sell his share, but he dreamed of dignity and splendour, and could not bear to obstruct his own fortune. He was then importuned to sell as much as would purchase a hundred a year for life, "which," said Fenton, "will make you sure of a clean shirt and a shoulder of mutton every day." This counsel was rejected; ...
— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury
... Strahan," cried Marian, in mock dignity, "as your superior officer, I am capable of judging of the merits of you both, and neither of you can change my estimate. You are insubordinate, and I shall put you under arrest if you don't tell me how you escaped at ...
— An Original Belle • E. P. Roe
... measurable future we may be confronted by a military community drawing on a population of 500,000,000 souls, autocratically governed and endowed with all the machinery of destruction which modern science has given to the world. A Russo-Chino-Japanese alliance might on behalf of the interest or dignity of one of the members of such a group challenge this country in some form or another, and a Western Europe with whom we had refused to co-operate for a common protection might as a consequence remain an indifferent ...
— New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various
... hand chairs to ladies, to guests? why should we open and shut doors, hand ladies, into carriages, and do a hundred other things which serfs formerly did for us? Because we think that it is necessary so to do; that human dignity demands it; that it is the duty, ...
— What To Do? - thoughts evoked by the census of Moscow • Count Lyof N. Tolstoi


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