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Definition of Dignitaries
1. dignitary [n] - See also: dignitary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dignitaries
Literary usage of Dignitaries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"After the Grand dignitaries came the military Grand Officers of the Empire.
By the terms of the Constitution of the year XII, ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"We may find such a cap delineated in many drawings of the fifteenth century, one
of which, representing university dignitaries at the Council of Constance, ..."
3. The Rocky Mountain Saints: A Full and Complete History of the Mormons, from by Thomas B. H. Stenhouse (1873)
"Grand Procession of Mormons and Gentiles—Prospective Peaco—The Federal Officers
and Mormon dignitaries wine together—The City honours General Connor in the ..."
4. Constitutional Law of England by Edward Wavell Ridges (1905)
"Over these divisions are the corresponding ecclesiastical dignitaries.
Ecclesiastical dignitaries. ..."
5. Narrative of a Mission to Bokhara: In the Years 1843-1845, to Ascertain the by Joseph Wolff (1845)
"dignitaries of the State. Ecclesias- tical dignitaries. THE day after the
presentation of the Shah's letter, the Ameer sent for Abbas Kouli Khan's and Dil ..."