Definizione monolingua

dignity

dignity (plural dignities)

1. A quality or state worthy of esteem and respect.
   • 1752, Henry Fielding, Amelia, I. viii

     He uttered this ... with great majesty, or, as he called it, dignity.

   • 1981, African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, art. 5

     Every individual shall have the right to the respect of the dignity inherent in a human being.

   • 2008, Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology (ECNH) [Switzerland]

     The dignity of living beings with regard to plants: Moral consideration of plants for their own sake, 3: ... the ECNH has been expected to make proposals from an ethical perspective to concretise the constitutional term dignity of living beings with regard to plants.^[1]

2. Decorum, formality, stateliness.
   • 1934, Aldous Huxley, ""Puerto Barrios"", in Beyond the Mexique Bay:

     Official DIGNITY tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.^[2]

3. High office, rank, or station.
   • 1781, Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, F. III. 231:

     He ... distributed the civil and military dignities among his favourites and followers.

Definizione dizionario dignity

	dignità
	quality or state
	Degno di rispetto, nobile.

	autostima
	Personal feelings or opinions of oneself.

decoro

elevatezza

Altri significati:

Decorum, formality, stateliness.

formality, stateliness

high office or rank

High office, rank, or station.