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[ UK /dˈɪɡnɪti/ ]
[ US /ˈdɪɡnəti/ ]
NOUN
  1. the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect
    showed his true dignity when under pressure
    it was beneath his dignity to cheat
  2. high office or rank or station
    he respected the dignity of the emissaries
  3. formality in bearing and appearance
    he behaved with great dignity

How To Use dignity In A Sentence

  • These same people also routinely said they felt comfortable with Bush as a leader with values and dignity.
  • Despite the challenges that prevail, our women have 'shouldered' the burdens with great resilience and dignity; and many of the successes that we claim toady, must be credited to our mothers, grandmothers, wives, aunts and sisters. Jamaica Information Service
  • He gathered himself up with as much dignity as he could muster before glaring at me.
  • She looks terrible, shorn of all her beauty and dignity.
  • This was the reality glossed over in television fiction; indignity, suspicion, denial of the decencies. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
  • Meanwhile, the sister is trying to maintain standards and dignity, washing her clothes and covering her body.
  • Faces of great dignity and considerable charm.
  • Only the bishops have retained the augurial staff, called the crosier; which was the distinctive mark of the dignity of augur; so that the symbol of falsehood has become the symbol of truth. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • Griselde, once again, accepted her fate and protested her love for the marquis, solely requesting her dignity upon exodus from the palace.
  • Even the chief civil authority of the town was deterred from sallying forth by a remembrance of a predecessor in the provostship who had been buried in a stable mixen all but his head, to the detriment of his clothes and the still greater and more lasting hurt to his dignity. Patsy
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