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/ˈdɪɡnɪti/ · noun
The state of being dignified or worthy of esteem: elevation of mind or character..
He uttered this ... with great majesty, or, as he called it, dignity.
Every individual shall have the right to the respect of the dignity inherent in a human being.
Historically, dignity has been ascribed to an elite group, but human dignity with reference to humanity and the human family has democratized dignity. […]. The idea of dignity as rank was carried over in Christian doctrine […].
The reception room was sacred to the dead wife. Her shiny portrait hung upon the wall - similar, doubtless, in all respects to the one which would be pasted on her tombstone. A little piece of black drapery had been tacked above the frame to lend a dignity to woe. But two of the tacks had fallen out, and the effect was now rakish, as that of a drunkard's bonnet.
Official DIGNITY tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.
The presence of an attorney from Washington, he wrote, "would lend dignity to the proceedings," and it also would "remove the questions of local prejudices and faction from the picture and would have a very fine effect upon the jury."
Note the preſumption of this Scythian ſlaue: I tel thee villaine, thoſe that lead my horſe Haue to their names tytles of dignitie, And dar’ſt thou bluntly cal me Baiazeth?
And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this?
Use dignity when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Dignity means The state of being dignified or worthy of esteem: elevation of mind or character..
Common synonyms include worth, worthiness, self-regard, self-respect.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He uttered this ... with great majesty, or, as he called it, dignity.
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