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DIGNITY

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dignity substantiv

1. demnitate, atitudine demnă; aer de demnitate; sentiment al demnităţii personale; gravitate; ţinută, prestantă;

the dignity of labour demnitatea muncii;

to stand on one’s dignity a) a se ţine demn, a avea conştiinţa demnităţii sale; b) a stărui în greşeală din amor propriu;

it is beneath his dignity to nu e demn de el să.

2. merit; rang; titlu, funcţie;

to confer the dignity of a peerage a conferi titlul de pair.

3. (fam.) persoane cu vază, personalităţi, elită.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

“Why, this is the very thing, aunt!” said I, flushed with the possible dignity of living in chambers.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Now he shook his colleague off and came back to his dignity.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was gone directly however, for Laurie said, with a vain attempt at dignity...

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

His manner seemed changed, his voice was quick from the agitation of joy; and all that had been awful in his dignity seemed lost in tenderness.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

He spoke with some dignity of manner, and with a bow he left the room.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But here you are in Bath, and the object is to be established here with all the credit and dignity which ought to belong to Sir Walter Elliot.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Yet his actions were in absurd contrast to the dignity of his dress and features, for he was running hard, with occasional little springs, such as a weary man gives who is little accustomed to set any tax upon his legs.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

About four days after Edward's arrival Colonel Brandon appeared, to complete Mrs. Dashwood's satisfaction, and to give her the dignity of having, for the first time since her living at Barton, more company with her than her house would hold.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Justine, thus received in our family, learned the duties of a servant, a condition which, in our fortunate country, does not include the idea of ignorance and a sacrifice of the dignity of a human being.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But being now a nardac of the highest rank in that empire, such offices were looked upon as below my dignity, and the emperor (to do him justice), never once mentioned them to me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

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