1The state or quality of being worthy of honor or respect.

一位人品高尚恪守原则的人。

劳动的高尚。

1. 1.1 A composed or serious manner or style.
   端庄，庄重
   he bowed with great dignity

   他很庄重地鞠了个躬。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • However, if their children get in one of these schools they are treated with honour and dignity.
   • So, you know, she's handled all of those situations with such dignity and grace.
   • You lead a wholesome and healthy life, with dignity and honour.
   • But now it is gone and we should lament its passing with all the solemnity and dignity such an occasion deserves.
   • He was always for better relations with Pakistan, and for allowing the people of Kashmir to live with dignity and honour.
   • At all times she managed to do all of it with great dignity and integrity.
   • Most of us are able to deal with life with grace and dignity and when we don't, it worries us and we try to work it out.
   • Facing us across the table, his expression solemn, he read the words of the ceremony slowly and with dignity.
   • Patients identified being treated with respect and dignity as very important.
   • Of course people should be able to deal with each other in a manner of dignity and respect.
   • They are a tall, noble people who move with grace and dignity, covering the ground, however rough, with apparently effortless ease.
   • Joanna did herself proud, showing that Polish youth can carry themselves with dignity and decorum all over the world.
   • I just request that we try to treat this proceeding with some dignity and some decorum.
   • He handed her the rose with all the dignity that such a serious occasion demanded before getting rather unsteadily to his feet.
   • However, they also noted that the public had praised staff, saying they treated patients with dignity and respect and were polite and caring.
   • He will have to explain his motives exceptionally well - something he has thus far failed to do - and concede with grace and dignity.
   • You need to be able to treat both with respect and dignity.
   • With grace, dignity and a heartbreaking absence of despair, she pulls the blanket around herself.
   • We are committed to treating all persons under coalition control with dignity, respect and humanity.
   • I hope the old fella remembers that he acted with dignity and honour at a time of extreme pressure.

   Synonyms

   stateliness, nobleness, nobility, majesty, regalness, regality, royalness, courtliness, augustness, loftiness, exaltedness, lordliness, impressiveness, grandeur, magnificence
2. 1.2 A sense of pride in oneself; self-respect.
   自豪；自尊
   it was beneath his dignity to shout

   叫喊是有伤他的自尊的。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • It was beneath my dignity to watch him leave, but for some reason I wished I could.
   • In the two-spirited world I have stumbled on, I found that this group maintains a sense of family and a sense of dignity.
   • She was missing one shoe, but she seemed to consider it beneath her dignity to limp.
   • Do you think the notion that it's beneath the dignity of a serious writer to cater for something like television has simply vanished?
   • Once we realize this truth, we are unlikely to contaminate ourselves by behavior beneath our dignity.
   • But you have no right simply to dismiss it as irrelevant or beneath your dignity.
   • Nearly all the women would consider it quite beneath their dignity to go into the kitchen even to supervise it.
   • The higher castes despise manual work and consider it beneath their dignity.
   • Men lose their capacity for self-improvement along with their sense of individual dignity.
   • This can only enhance an individual's sense of self-worth and dignity.
   • Imagine losing a lifetime of memories, your dignity and your sense of pride.
   • That deputy violated my civil rights, demeaned my character, and has done serious damage to my dignity.
   • I can ask that the searches and scrutiny be done in a professional manner, with no insults and nothing that offends my dignity.
   • Many operations like radical prostatectomies or radical mastectomies rob patients of their dignity and their quality of life.
   • An innate sense of pride and dignity sets them apart from the crowd.
   • I paused outside the carved double doors, gathering my dignity and composure around me like a shield.
   • But on the other hand, that is what poverty does to us in the global south; it makes you lose your sense of dignity and pride.
   • Naturally, flying in one of those ancient ships was beneath his dignity.
   • Asked by the castle guard to read his work, the poet refuses because it is beneath his dignity to perform in the open air.
   • They have the right to their own pride and dignity.

   Synonyms

   self-esteem, self-worth, self-respect, pride, morale
3. 1.3 A high or honorable rank or position.
   高位，显职
   he promised dignities to the nobles in return for his rival's murder

   他向贵族们许诺了高官要职，作为对谋杀他的对手的回报。

   Example sentencesExamples

   • Clergy and laity had to be interdependent, but by the early 19th cent. both groups were asserting their rights and dignities.
   • William had impoverished himself in the service of the Crown whilst Treasurer of Scotland, leaving a debt of more than £80,000 which King James owed to his son John, when he was restored to his dignities in 1592.
   • As for him, he believed the Quakers to be those agents of the devil foretold in the New Testament, who ‘despise dominion and speak evil of dignities.’
   • As he says, ‘I would not change my life for any of the greatest dignities on earth.’
   • It angers me that the powers-that-be can suddenly find the money to spend on cleaning up places when dignities come to call.
   • He cultivated an image of Olympian detachment by scrupulously protecting the respective ranks and dignities of the grandees.
   • Dealing with the item, the Mayor completely forgot the dignities of the office he holds as a neutral guardian of the rights of each citizen in his haste to score a personal rebuff.
   • Many of the beneficiaries of this system were appointed very young after truncated studies, lightning ordination, and rapid progress through a hierarchy of lesser dignities.
   • Later he was accused of plotting against Justinian and stripped of his dignities.
   • The portentous dignities bestowed upon officials and sympathizers were partly for Roman consumption, setting him up as arbiter of status and palace-based master of the city.
   • I pray for the day when I can return home and take up my dignities again.
   • Parochial dignities and influence are no substitute for discipleship in the world.
   • This is the sort of person who steps up to the plate when offices and dignities are being passed around.
   • The Anglican world today is seeking to invest the office with dignities and responsibilities that go well beyond its actual place in civil and canon law.

   Synonyms

   high rank, high standing, high station, status, elevation, eminence, honour, glory, greatness, importance, prominence, prestige