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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dignity" Quotes from Famous Books

... presence in the Cabinet of a person holding the opinions which I entertain as to the principles on which our Foreign Affairs ought to be conducted, is useful in modifying the contrary system of Policy, which, as I think, injuriously to the interests and dignity of the Country, there is a disposition in other quarters to pursue; but notwithstanding all this. I cannot consent to stand forward as one of the Authors and Supporters of John Russell's ...

— The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 • Queen Victoria

... first edition was issued, was aged thirty-five, acted his part as a great man very well, for he with dignity took no notice of the error on the title-page of the first edition, attributing to him poems which he had never written. But when Jaggard went on sinning, and the third edition appeared under Shakespeare's ...

— Adventures in Criticism • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... one cannot help seeing, as one looks from the older to the younger style, that whatever the woman's sixteenth- century charm may be, it is not the man's eleventh-century trait of naivete;—far from it! The simple, serious, silent dignity and energy of the eleventh century have gone. Something more complicated stands in their place; graceful, self-conscious, rhetorical, and beautiful as perfect rhetoric, with its clearness, light, and line, and the wealth of tracery that verges on ...

— Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres • Henry Adams

... true dignity must be founded on character, not on dress and appearance; so in language the dignity of composition must arise from sentiment and thought, not from ornament."—Blair's ...

— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown

... moral laws," their awful manifestation of the working of infinite mind and power, and of man's nearness to, or rather oneness with, that Power, when he obeys them. He would come to thrill with an indescribable emotion with Kant, as he thinks of the infinite dignity to which fellowship with those mysterious laws elevates him. He would realise the truth of ...

— Morality as a Religion - An exposition of some first principles • W. R. Washington Sullivan

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