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Definition of Dignities
1. dignity [n] - See also: dignity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dignities
Literary usage of Dignities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times by Henry Ward Beecher (1863)
"SPEAKING EVIL OF dignities* " They are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
... The term translated dignities signifies glories or eminences. ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1864)
"Many British subjects have, at various times, been honoured with titles of nobility
an(l other dignities by foreign sovereigns ; yet, with the exception of ..."
3. The Voyage of François Pyrard of Laval to the East Indies, the Maldives, the by François Pyrard, Pierre de Bergeron, Jérôme Bignon (1887)
"Orders of the people,—of the nobility, the great offices and dignities, and their
rank. As for the orders and distinctions of the whole people, according to ..."
4. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"dignities.—dignities bear a near relation to offices. Of the nature of these we
treated at large in the former book:' it will therefore be here sufficient ..."
5. Narratives of Early Maryland, 1633-1684 by Clayton Colman Hall (1910)
"Furthermore, That the way to honors and dignities, may not seeme te be altogether
precluded and shut up, to men well borne, and such as shall prepare ..."
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