dignityn.

/ˈdɪɡnɪti/

Forms: Middle English dignete, Middle English dingnete, Middle English dingnytee, Middle English dyngnete, Middle English–1500s dignite, Middle English–1500s dignyte, Middle English–1500s dignytee, Middle English–1500s dignytye, Middle English–1500s dygnyte, Middle English–1500s dygnytee, Middle English–1500s dyngnyte, Middle English–1600s dignitee, Middle English–1600s dignitie, Middle English–1600s dignitye, Middle English– dignity, 1500s dignitiee, 1500s dignyty, 1500s dygnitee, 1500s dygnitye, 1500s dygnytye, 1500s–1600s dygnity.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French digneté, dignité (French dignité) quality of being worthy (12th cent.), official position, high office, authority, honour (13th cent.), situation of a planet in which its influence is heightened (early 14th cent.), impressiveness, distinction (c1370) < classical Latin dignitāt- , dignitās quality of being worthy, worth, excellence, distinction, (in rhetoric) impressiveness of style, rank, status, high office, people holding high office, importance, honour, in post-classical Latin also as an honorary title (with tua or vestra your; 6th cent.), situation of a planet in which its influence is heightened (frequently from late 12th cent. in British sources), self-evident proposition, axiom (13th cent. in British sources, after ancient Greek ἀξίωμα honour, worth, dignity, also first principle, axiom: see axiom n.), (in mathematics) power (1686) < dignus worthy (see digne adj.) + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix). Compare also dainty n.

a. The quality of being worthy or honourable; worthiness, worth, nobleness, excellence.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > good repute > reputability or honourableness > [noun]

worshipeOE

worthOE

dignity?c1225

worthsc1225

mund?c1250

pricea1325

worthfulheada1325

valourc1330

dignesse1399

value?a1400

honesty1418

worthiheadc1425

honourabilityc1426

worthihood?1457

sadnessa1513

honourableness1553

respect1567

worshipfulty1589

ingenuity1598

creditableness1647

honorificabilitudinity1656

worshipfulness1663

reputability1792

creditability1805

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 113 Nis naut edsene inhwich dignete ha [the soul] is. hu hech is hire cunde.

c1230 Hali Meid. 5 Of se muche dignete, and swuch wurðschipe.

c1393 G. Chaucer Gentilesse 5 For vn-to vertue longeth dignytee.

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) vi. 18 A name of grete dignitee and of grete worschepe.

1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. Tabil sig. *.viii Of the preeminens and excellent dignitiee of the Pater noster.

1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. v. 48 From me whose loue was of that dignitie That it went hand in hand, euen with the vowe I made to her in marriage.

1653 R. Austen Treat. Fruit-trees 11 The dignity and value of Fruit-trees.

1787 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 95 I recollect no work of any dignity which has been lately published.

1795 W. Wordsworth Yew-tree Seat True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart.

1836 H. Taylor Statesman xv. 107 It is of the essence of real dignity to be self-sustained, and no man's dignity can be asserted without being impaired.

1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 75 The real dignity of a man lies not in what he has, but in what he is.

†b. The quality of being worthy of something; desert, merit. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > dueness or propriety > [noun] > deserving (good or ill) > deserving well > desert or merit

dignity1548

promerit1604

merit1711

1548 R. Hutten tr. J. Spangenberg Sum of Diuinitie sig. Ev Fayth leaneth onelye vpon mercy, not of our dygnytye.

1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 154 To suppose that God should fetch the commun rule of his giving or not giving grace, from mans dignitie or indignitie.

a. Honourable or high estate, position, or estimation; honour; degree of estimation, rank.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > [noun]

highnesseOE

dignityc1230

worshiphead1340

gentryc1390

heighta1400

rank?c1430

portc1475

affair1480

stateliness1548

character1629

sublimitya1656

station1706

rate1707

elevatedness1731

tchin1861

c1230 Hali Meid. 15 Eadie meiden, understond in hu heh dignete þe mihte of meidenhad halt te.

1340 Ayenbite (1866) 215 Þere ssolle þe greate lhordes and þe greate lheuedyes uoryete..hare dingnete, and hare heȝnesse.

1399 Rolls Parl. III. 424/1 Ye renounsed and cessed of the State of Kyng, and of Lordeshipp and of all the Dignite and Wirsshipp that longed therto.

c1400 Rom. Rose 7682 I..have pouste To shryve folk of most dignyte.

a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 92 Gyvyng somewhat to the dygnyte of presthode.

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. vi. 58 Stones, though in dignitie of nature inferiour vnto plants.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. i. 182 His Sonne, who ha's (His Dignitie, and Dutie both cast off) Fled from his Father, from his Hopes, and with A Shepheards Daughter.

1711 J. Swift Lett. (1767) III. 177 I fear I shall be sometimes forced to stoop beneath my dignity, and send to the ale-house for a dinner.

1751 J. Harris Hermes i. i. 8 There is no kind of Subject, having its foundation in Nature, that is below the Dignity of a philosophical Inquiry.

1786 H. More Florio 6 Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes.

1891 Law Times 92 124/1 The post of Irish Chancellor has increased rather than diminished in dignity since the Union.

figurative.?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens sig. Hj^v May the herte..sustayne dysease longe? Answere. No, for his great dygnyte.1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 215 Consider the dignity of the part affected, so that the heart must not be tryed by vehement remedies.

b. collective. Persons of high estate or rank (cf. the quality at quality n. 5b).

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > [noun] > person of > collectively

dignity1548

robe1589

sanctorum1675

quality1693

statesfolk1735

laudable1815

rank1883

1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. Pref. sig. c.viij My lordes grace, my lord of Warwyke, thother estates of y^e counsail thear, w^t the rest of y^e dignite of tharmie did..tarry..at Barwike.

1793 E. Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 149 I cannot see the dignity of a great kingdom, and, with its dignity, all its virtue, imprisoned or exiled, without great pain.

a. An honourable office, rank, or title; a high official or titular position.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > [noun]

nameeOE

dignityc1290

titlea1398

stylea1400

addition1472

a handle to one's name1822

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > [noun] > definite rank

worshipOE

dignityc1290

statec1300

order?a1425

c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 72/54 Bischop him made..seint Edward þe king, And a-feng him in his dignete.

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 15112 Seint Gregore tok þe dignete, And was pope þrytty ȝer.

1520 Chron. Eng. ccxxxvi. f. 258 Tho that were chose to bisshoppes sees and dignytees.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccviij Edward duke of Yorke, whiche..had vntrewly vsurped the Croune and Imperial dignite of this realme.

1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. iv. xvii. 128 He procured the Dignity of Generall to be taken away from the Duke of Frithland.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 98 By a Dignity, we understand that Promotion or Preferment, to which any Jurisdiction is annex'd.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 231 He..distributed the civil and military dignities among his favourites and followers.

1806 J. Lingard Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church I. i. 12 Gregory..resigned the dignity of Roman prefect.

1884 Liverpool Mercury 3 Mar. 5/1 Her Majesty has conferred the dignity of a viscountcy upon Sir Henry B. W. Brand.

b. transferred. A person holding a high office or position; a dignitary.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > [noun]

bishopc893

prelate?c1225

prince of priests?c1225

high priestc1400

pontificala1450

emperor clerkc1475

gentleman untrial1486

dignitya1525

Aaron1565

hierarch1574

presul1577

monsignor1579

church governor1588

pontiff1589

archbishop1600

monseigneur1601

monsignor1611

sheikh1613

protomist1619

Mar1622

hyperochality1637

protarch1654

pontifex1655

prelatical1658

dignitary1672

hierophanta1676

Monsig.1698

ecclesiarch1781

arch-pontiff1790

Mgr1848

Msgr.1868

patriarch-

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > [noun] > person of

proudOE

higha1200

estate1399

honourablea1450

statec1449

dignitya1525

high and mighty1576

palasinc1580

titular1605

sublimity1610

dignitary1672

person of condition1673

figure1692

title1817

titulary1824

Hon.1836

high-up1882

high-ranker1899

a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 690 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 116 Denys and digniteis.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes That I..may..entertaine so high, if not deities yet dignities.

1611 Bible (King James) Jude 8 These filthy dreamers..speake euill of dignities .

1656 P. Heylyn Surv. Estate France 93 There is..in this Church a Dean 7 Dignities and 50 Canons.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 359 Godlike shapes and forms..Princely Dignities, And Powers that earst in Heaven sat on Thrones.

1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. i. 58 If thou hast found thy tongue..thou art like enough to lose it again by slice of knife, by talking such ribaldry of dignities.

a. Nobility or befitting elevation of aspect, manner, or style; becoming or fit stateliness, gravity. (Cf. dignified adj. 2.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > proper pride or self-respect > [noun] > dignity

lordliness1440

portliness1530

majesty1531

stateliness1541

state1557

regality1582

decorum1589

grandeur1615

port1633

statefulness1655

dignity1667

consequence1793

statelihood1845

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 489 Grace was in all her steps..In every gesture dignitie and love.

1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. vi. 73 A dignity of dress adorns the great.

1752 H. Fielding Amelia i. viii He uttered this..with great majesty, or, as he called it, dignity.

1811 S. Smith Wks. (1859) I. 205/1 All establishments die of dignity. They are too proud to think themselves ill, and to take a little physic.

1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) II. ii. i. 248 He preserved in his domestic arrangements the dignity of a literary and public man.

1854 J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) II. xxx. 557 He opposed the effect of these instructions with such silent dignity as to command general respect.

1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion ii. iv. 77 So much of dignity in ruin lives.

b. Rhetoric.

ΚΠ

1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Dignity, in oratory, one of the three parts of elocution, consisting in the right use of tropes and figures.

5. Astrology. A situation of a planet in which its influence is heightened, either by its position in the zodiac, or by its aspects with other planets.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the universe > heavenly body > as influence on mankind > [noun] > influence > planet as > situation of > dignity

exaltationc1386

dignityc1400

fortitudea1549

hayne1647

c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) Prol. 3 Tables of dignetes of planetes.

c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §4. 19 The lord of the assendent..where-as he is in his dignite & conforted with frendly aspectys of planetes.

a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) ii. ii. 76 Saturn out of all dignities..and Venus in the South-angle elevated above him.

1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. vi. 49 Almuten, of any house is that Planet who hath most dignities in the Signe ascending or descending upon the Cusp of any house.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) In Astrology, Dignities are the Advantages a Planet has upon account of its being in a particular place of the Zodiack, or in such a Station with other Planets, etc. by which means its Influences and Virtue are encreas'd.

1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 119 Ye planetary sons of light!..Your aspects, dignities, ascendances.

†6. The term for a ‘company’ of canons. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > council > chapter > member of chapter > [noun] > collective

dignity1486

1486 Bk. St. Albans F vij a A Dignyte of chanonys.

†7. Algebra. = power n.¹ Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1715 Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 211 Mr. Newton introduced..the Fract, Surd, Negative and Indefinitive Indices of Dignities.

8. A self-evident theorem, an axiom.

ΚΠ

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. vii. 25 These Sciences [mathematics], concluding from dignities and principles knowne by themselves, they receive not satisfaction from probable reasons, much lesse from bare and peremptory asseverations.

Compounds

dignity ball n.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > dancing > ball or dance > [noun] > other balls or dances

carolc1300

buttock-ball1698

redoubt1698

ridotto1708

race ball1770

county ball1771

dress ball?1772

promenade1778

waltz1802

hunt ball1807

dignity ball1834

ball-royala1843

polkery1845

jigging-party1872

prom1879

Cinderella dance1883

dinner dance1887

white ball1891

cotillion1898

taxi dance1910

Stampede Dance1950

go-go1965

1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xii. 193 A dignity ball is a ball given by the most consequential of their coloured people [in Barbadoes].

1875 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 5 Aug. 5/4 It appears that Dignity Balls are becoming too fashionable. The upper ten, ladies included, have taken to going to them.

1992 M. Kurlansky Continent of Islands ii. 52 They held a three‐day mulatto ‘dignity ball’ across from the tavern where Soulouque and Olive were staying.

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单词	dignity
释义	dignityn. /ˈdɪɡnɪti/ Forms: Middle English dignete, Middle English dingnete, Middle English dingnytee, Middle English dyngnete, Middle English–1500s dignite, Middle English–1500s dignyte, Middle English–1500s dignytee, Middle English–1500s dignytye, Middle English–1500s dygnyte, Middle English–1500s dygnytee, Middle English–1500s dyngnyte, Middle English–1600s dignitee, Middle English–1600s dignitie, Middle English–1600s dignitye, Middle English– dignity, 1500s dignitiee, 1500s dignyty, 1500s dygnitee, 1500s dygnitye, 1500s dygnytye, 1500s–1600s dygnity. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French digneté, dignité (French dignité) quality of being worthy (12th cent.), official position, high office, authority, honour (13th cent.), situation of a planet in which its influence is heightened (early 14th cent.), impressiveness, distinction (c1370) < classical Latin dignitāt- , dignitās quality of being worthy, worth, excellence, distinction, (in rhetoric) impressiveness of style, rank, status, high office, people holding high office, importance, honour, in post-classical Latin also as an honorary title (with tua or vestra your; 6th cent.), situation of a planet in which its influence is heightened (frequently from late 12th cent. in British sources), self-evident proposition, axiom (13th cent. in British sources, after ancient Greek ἀξίωμα honour, worth, dignity, also first principle, axiom: see axiom n.), (in mathematics) power (1686) < dignus worthy (see digne adj.) + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix). Compare also dainty n. 1. a. The quality of being worthy or honourable; worthiness, worth, nobleness, excellence. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > good repute > reputability or honourableness > [noun] worshipeOE worthOE dignity?c1225 worthsc1225 mund?c1250 pricea1325 worthfulheada1325 valourc1330 dignesse1399 value?a1400 honesty1418 worthiheadc1425 honourabilityc1426 worthihood?1457 sadnessa1513 honourableness1553 respect1567 worshipfulty1589 ingenuity1598 creditableness1647 honorificabilitudinity1656 worshipfulness1663 reputability1792 creditability1805 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 113 Nis naut edsene inhwich dignete ha [the soul] is. hu hech is hire cunde. c1230 Hali Meid. 5 Of se muche dignete, and swuch wurðschipe. c1393 G. Chaucer Gentilesse 5 For vn-to vertue longeth dignytee. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) vi. 18 A name of grete dignitee and of grete worschepe. 1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. Tabil sig. .viii Of the preeminens and excellent dignitiee of the Pater noster. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet* i. v. 48 From me whose loue was of that dignitie That it went hand in hand, euen with the vowe I made to her in marriage. View more context for this quotation 1653 R. Austen Treat. Fruit-trees 11 The dignity and value of Fruit-trees. 1787 T. Jefferson Writings (1859) II. 95 I recollect no work of any dignity which has been lately published. 1795 W. Wordsworth Yew-tree Seat True dignity abides with him alone Who, in the silent hour of inward thought, Can still suspect, and still revere himself, In lowliness of heart. 1836 H. Taylor Statesman xv. 107 It is of the essence of real dignity to be self-sustained, and no man's dignity can be asserted without being impaired. 1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 75 The real dignity of a man lies not in what he has, but in what he is. †b. The quality of being worthy of something; desert, merit. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > [noun] > deserving (good or ill) > deserving well > desert or merit dignity1548 promerit1604 merit1711 1548 R. Hutten tr. J. Spangenberg Sum of Diuinitie sig. Ev Fayth leaneth onelye vpon mercy, not of our dygnytye. 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 154 To suppose that God should fetch the commun rule of his giving or not giving grace, from mans dignitie or indignitie. 2. a. Honourable or high estate, position, or estimation; honour; degree of estimation, rank. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > [noun] highnesseOE dignityc1230 worshiphead1340 gentryc1390 heighta1400 rank?c1430 portc1475 affair1480 stateliness1548 character1629 sublimitya1656 station1706 rate1707 elevatedness1731 tchin1861 c1230 Hali Meid. 15 Eadie meiden, understond in hu heh dignete þe mihte of meidenhad halt te. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 215 Þere ssolle þe greate lhordes and þe greate lheuedyes uoryete..hare dingnete, and hare heȝnesse. 1399 Rolls Parl. III. 424/1 Ye renounsed and cessed of the State of Kyng, and of Lordeshipp and of all the Dignite and Wirsshipp that longed therto. c1400 Rom. Rose 7682 I..have pouste To shryve folk of most dignyte. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 92 Gyvyng somewhat to the dygnyte of presthode. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. vi. 58 Stones, though in dignitie of nature inferiour vnto plants. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) v. i. 182 His Sonne, who ha's (His Dignitie, and Dutie both cast off) Fled from his Father, from his Hopes, and with A Shepheards Daughter. View more context for this quotation 1711 J. Swift Lett. (1767) III. 177 I fear I shall be sometimes forced to stoop beneath my dignity, and send to the ale-house for a dinner. 1751 J. Harris Hermes i. i. 8 There is no kind of Subject, having its foundation in Nature, that is below the Dignity of a philosophical Inquiry. 1786 H. More Florio 6 Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes. 1891 Law Times 92 124/1 The post of Irish Chancellor has increased rather than diminished in dignity since the Union. figurative.?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens sig. Hj^v May the herte..sustayne dysease longe? Answere. No, for his great dygnyte.1656 J. Smith Compl. Pract. Physick 215 Consider the dignity of the part affected, so that the heart must not be tryed by vehement remedies. b. collective. Persons of high estate or rank (cf. the quality at quality n. 5b). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > [noun] > person of > collectively dignity1548 robe1589 sanctorum1675 quality1693 statesfolk1735 laudable1815 rank1883 1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. Pref. sig. c.viij My lordes grace, my lord of Warwyke, thother estates of y^e counsail thear, w^t the rest of y^e dignite of tharmie did..tarry..at Barwike. 1793 E. Burke Corr. (1844) IV. 149 I cannot see the dignity of a great kingdom, and, with its dignity, all its virtue, imprisoned or exiled, without great pain. 3. a. An honourable office, rank, or title; a high official or titular position. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > [noun] nameeOE dignityc1290 titlea1398 stylea1400 addition1472 a handle to one's name1822 society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > [noun] > definite rank worshipOE dignityc1290 statec1300 order?a1425 c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 72/54 Bischop him made..seint Edward þe king, And a-feng him in his dignete. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 15112 Seint Gregore tok þe dignete, And was pope þrytty ȝer. 1520 Chron. Eng. ccxxxvi. f. 258 Tho that were chose to bisshoppes sees and dignytees. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccviij Edward duke of Yorke, whiche..had vntrewly vsurped the Croune and Imperial dignite of this realme. 1656 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival Hist. Iron Age i. iv. xvii. 128 He procured the Dignity of Generall to be taken away from the Duke of Frithland. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 98 By a Dignity, we understand that Promotion or Preferment, to which any Jurisdiction is annex'd. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 231 He..distributed the civil and military dignities among his favourites and followers. 1806 J. Lingard Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church I. i. 12 Gregory..resigned the dignity of Roman prefect. 1884 Liverpool Mercury 3 Mar. 5/1 Her Majesty has conferred the dignity of a viscountcy upon Sir Henry B. W. Brand. b. transferred. A person holding a high office or position; a dignitary. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > [noun] bishopc893 prelate?c1225 prince of priests?c1225 high priestc1400 pontificala1450 emperor clerkc1475 gentleman untrial1486 dignitya1525 Aaron1565 hierarch1574 presul1577 monsignor1579 church governor1588 pontiff1589 archbishop1600 monseigneur1601 monsignor1611 sheikh1613 protomist1619 Mar1622 hyperochality1637 protarch1654 pontifex1655 prelatical1658 dignitary1672 hierophanta1676 Monsig.1698 ecclesiarch1781 arch-pontiff1790 Mgr1848 Msgr.1868 patriarch- society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > [noun] > person of proudOE higha1200 estate1399 honourablea1450 statec1449 dignitya1525 high and mighty1576 palasinc1580 titular1605 sublimity1610 dignitary1672 person of condition1673 figure1692 title1817 titulary1824 Hon.1836 high-up1882 high-ranker1899 a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 690 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 116 Denys and digniteis. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes That I..may..entertaine so high, if not deities yet dignities. 1611 Bible (King James) Jude 8 These filthy dreamers..speake euill of dignities . View more context for this quotation 1656 P. Heylyn Surv. Estate France 93 There is..in this Church a Dean 7 Dignities and 50 Canons. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 359 Godlike shapes and forms..Princely Dignities, And Powers that earst in Heaven sat on Thrones. View more context for this quotation 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. i. 58 If thou hast found thy tongue..thou art like enough to lose it again by slice of knife, by talking such ribaldry of dignities. 4. a. Nobility or befitting elevation of aspect, manner, or style; becoming or fit stateliness, gravity. (Cf. dignified adj. 2.) ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > proper pride or self-respect > [noun] > dignity lordliness1440 portliness1530 majesty1531 stateliness1541 state1557 regality1582 decorum1589 grandeur1615 port1633 statefulness1655 dignity1667 consequence1793 statelihood1845 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 489 Grace was in all her steps..In every gesture dignitie and love. View more context for this quotation 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. vi. 73 A dignity of dress adorns the great. 1752 H. Fielding Amelia i. viii He uttered this..with great majesty, or, as he called it, dignity. 1811 S. Smith Wks. (1859) I. 205/1 All establishments die of dignity. They are too proud to think themselves ill, and to take a little physic. 1853 J. H. Newman Hist. Sketches (1873) II. ii. i. 248 He preserved in his domestic arrangements the dignity of a literary and public man. 1854 J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) II. xxx. 557 He opposed the effect of these instructions with such silent dignity as to command general respect. 1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion ii. iv. 77 So much of dignity in ruin lives. b. Rhetoric. ΚΠ 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Dignity, in oratory, one of the three parts of elocution, consisting in the right use of tropes and figures. 5. Astrology. A situation of a planet in which its influence is heightened, either by its position in the zodiac, or by its aspects with other planets. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > heavenly body > as influence on mankind > [noun] > influence > planet as > situation of > dignity exaltationc1386 dignityc1400 fortitudea1549 hayne1647 c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) Prol. 3 Tables of dignetes of planetes. c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §4. 19 The lord of the assendent..where-as he is in his dignite & conforted with frendly aspectys of planetes. a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) ii. ii. 76 Saturn out of all dignities..and Venus in the South-angle elevated above him. 1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. vi. 49 Almuten, of any house is that Planet who hath most dignities in the Signe ascending or descending upon the Cusp of any house. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) In Astrology, Dignities are the Advantages a Planet has upon account of its being in a particular place of the Zodiack, or in such a Station with other Planets, etc. by which means its Influences and Virtue are encreas'd. 1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 119 Ye planetary sons of light!..Your aspects, dignities, ascendances. †6. The term for a ‘company’ of canons. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > council > chapter > member of chapter > [noun] > collective dignity1486 1486 Bk. St. Albans F vij a A Dignyte of chanonys. †7. Algebra. = power n.¹ Obsolete. ΚΠ 1715 Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 211 Mr. Newton introduced..the Fract, Surd, Negative and Indefinitive Indices of Dignities. 8. A self-evident theorem, an axiom. ΚΠ 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. vii. 25 These Sciences [mathematics], concluding from dignities and principles knowne by themselves, they receive not satisfaction from probable reasons, much lesse from bare and peremptory asseverations. View more context for this quotation Compounds dignity ball n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > dancing > ball or dance > [noun] > other balls or dances carolc1300 buttock-ball1698 redoubt1698 ridotto1708 race ball1770 county ball1771 dress ball?1772 promenade1778 waltz1802 hunt ball1807 dignity ball1834 ball-royala1843 polkery1845 jigging-party1872 prom1879 Cinderella dance1883 dinner dance1887 white ball1891 cotillion1898 taxi dance1910 Stampede Dance1950 go-go1965 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. xii. 193 A dignity ball is a ball given by the most consequential of their coloured people [in Barbadoes]. 1875 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 5 Aug. 5/4 It appears that Dignity Balls are becoming too fashionable. The upper ten, ladies included, have taken to going to them. 1992 M. Kurlansky Continent of Islands ii. 52 They held a three‐day mulatto ‘dignity ball’ across from the tavern where Soulouque and Olive were staying. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.?c1225
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