(n.) The state of being worthy or honorable; elevation of mind or character; true worth; excellence.
(n.) Elevation; grandeur.
(n.) Elevated rank; honorable station; high office, political or ecclesiastical; degree of excellence; preferment; exaltation.
(n.) Quality suited to inspire respect or reverence; loftiness and grace; impressiveness; stateliness; -- said of //en, manner, style, etc.
(n.) One holding high rank; a dignitary.
(n.) Fundamental principle; axiom; maxim.
Example Sentences:
(1) The values of human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and the respect for human rights are absolutely fundamental to the European Union.
(2) All the personality, dignity and humanity of a person are devastated by this torture.
(3) Но поразительно, что ((аристос)) и партию human dignity в сегодняшней России представляет не фигура солженицынского или манделовского типа, а бывший миллиардер.
(4) He chose to be a man, not an artist, in this painting, and to claim no dignity except that which everyone deserves.
(5) And I believe that America holds within her the truth that regardless of race, religion, or station in life, all of us share common aspirations – to live in peace and security; to get an education and to work with dignity; to love our families, our communities, and our God.
(6) From 1985 to June 1989 diagnostic tumour resections have been performed on 37 kidney tumours with unknown dignity following the preoperative imaging techniques.
(7) They’re angry because they can’t afford to send their kids to college so they can’t retire with dignity.” One of the signs that voters still lack confidence in the US job market is the labor participation rate, which in 2015 reached its lowest point in 38 years.
(8) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(9) "It was not just about toppling the old regime but about building a state where people can have freedom, dignity, rule of law and social justice."
(10) Indonesia’s largest Muslim group, Nahdlatul Ulama, in February described gay lifestyles as perverted and a desecration of human dignity.
(11) The democratically elected usually manage to leave with some dignity intact – even if in Britain the removal is often criticised for its humiliating haste.
(12) In this retrospective study the findings of visual acuity, visual field and papillae of 204 patients operated on the cerebrum were determined and the significance of the morphological factors (position and size of the defect of the cerebral parenchyma, extent of the cerebral ventricles, degree of the cortical atrophy, influence of dignity) for the persisting ophthalmological deficiency phenomena was pointed out.
(13) My hope is that those who are at the Games take these words and let them echo, with grace, courage and dignity, in whatever way they choose to, because it will make a difference to those participating, and to those watching.
(14) The analysis shows that the core of nursing can be described as helping the patients either to manage their daily living or to die with dignity, and it consists of three stages which continually interact.
(15) From campaigner to prisoner to President to global hero, Nelson Mandela will always be remembered for his dignity, integrity and his values of equality and justice.
(16) For here we see the depravity to which man can sink, the barbarity that unfolds when we begin to see our fellow human beings as somehow less than us, less worthy of dignity and life; we see how evil can, for a moment in time, triumph when good people do nothing."
(17) After suffering a severe form of ME which left her bedridden and unable to speak or feed herself for all of her adolescent and adult life, she had decided she was never going to recover, and wanted to ensure her life would end before total degeneration robbed her of all dignity.
(18) Palliative care must be based on a philosophy that acknowledges the inherent worth and dignity of each person.
(19) They’d certainly believe that they had stolen this woman’s dignity.
(20) Having started out preening (he tells a former colleague that he lives "the life of Riley"), he ends up howling alone on a small rock, the decision to adorn himself with a beautiful young wife having stolen his stature, robbed him of his dignity.
Prestige
Definition:
(v.) Delusion; illusion; trick.
(v.) Weight or influence derived from past success; expectation of future achievements founded on those already accomplished; force or charm derived from acknowledged character or reputation.
Example Sentences:
(1) We carried English prestige into the inaugural season of the Europa League, taking Atlético Madrid into extra time in the final and within five minutes of a penalty shootout.
(2) Some offer a range, depending on whether you think you're a bit of a buff, and know a pinot meunier from a pinot noir and what prestige cuvée actually means or you just want to see a bit of the process and have a nice glass of bubbly at the end of it, before moving on to the next place – touring a pretty corner of France getting slowly, and delightfully, fizzled.
(3) We must abandon the opinion that the prestige of a surgical department rests in the number of beds.
(4) The researcher is completing a PhD on the superyacht scene and says the vessels are unique among prestige assets: unlike private jets they are not a useful mode of transport; unlike art and property, they always depreciate in value.
(5) It also said: “We should aim to break the right quickly, and teach those around us not to be intimidated by the rightwing’s longer years of service and apparently superior ‘Labour knowledge’ or prestige.” The July issue of the group’s newspaper, Solidarity, led with the headline “ Flood into the Labour party”.
(6) There are so many coaches in this world who want to work but can’t and there are those dashing blades who, through their quality and prestige, could work but don’t want to, because life as a parasite fulfils them professionally and economically.
(7) In London, for example, BP wants the prestige of being associated with the UK’s leading arts organisations.
(8) A study among a sample of Israeli primary care physicians and a comparison group of hospital physicians revealed an empirical 'structure of committedness', ascertaining that the committedness to practice primary care is contingent on the 'intrinsic' satisfaction and rewards as well as the 'extrinsic' rewards from the professional community (namely, prestige), derived from bio-medical (but not psycho-social) intervention activities.
(9) Two hundred ten adolescents were questioned regarding reasons they date, and the importance of various personality variables and prestige factors in selecting a dating partner.
(10) As deduced from Blau's theory, groups with greater relative occupational dispersion, greater political participation, advanced education, and higher sex ratios have greater relative occupational prestige in the health care delivery system.
(11) Over the years the Oscars have been variously coveted and sneered at, have increasingly brought box-office value and personal prestige, become a media obsession, a gauge of industrial morale and a way of taking the national pulse.
(12) "The military has suffered a huge blow to its prestige," said Cyril Almeida of Dawn newspaper.
(13) A factor analysis of the inventory revealed that students chose occupational therapy as a career because they liked the salaries, nationwide job availability, regular hours, and prestige that is associated with the profession.
(14) In The Prestige (2006), Christopher Nolan’s film about two battling magicians, Bowie featured as the inventor Nikola Tesla.
(15) Gaddafi, as vigilant keeper of the flame, kept a weather eye open, heaping privileges on some and prestige on others in order to consolidate alliances and plaster over any cracks that threatened to appear.
(16) The hunger strike by our former fellow prisoners at the Guantánamo prison camp should have already been the spur for President Obama to end this shameful saga, which has so lowered US prestige in the world.
(17) Olympic medals, Nobel prizes, the colour of coffee romances, prestige credit cards and superior chocolate from Terry's to Wispa .
(18) Other incentives to avoid misconduct may include a desire to earn re-election, the need to maintain prestige as an element of Presidential influence, and a President’s traditional concern for his historical stature.” Those checks and balances are likely to be tested when the business mogul-turned-president takes office.
(19) "Why are you ruining the prestige of the [UN nuclear] agency for absurd US claims?"
(20) Prestige, centre stage at the summit, the one-on-one meeting, the hand on the back from Trump.