adjective
definition
Having an attitude or bearing that connotes respectability and poise.
verb
definition
To invest with dignity or honour.
definition
To give distinction to.
definition
To exalt in rank.
definition
(chiefly in the negative) To treat as worthy or acceptable; to indulge or condone by acknowledging.
example
I will not dignify that comment with a response.
Examples of dignified in a Sentence
Leo was dignified in appearance and elegant in speech, manners and writing.
The position of women is free and dignified.
Isolated enterprises somewhat of the character of a Crusade, but hardly serious enough to be dignified by that name, recur during the 14th century.
The architectural style is dignified and pleasing in design and proportions.
There are, however, many passages in his sermons in which he rises to loftier thought and uses more dignified language.
Soon after he saw an ascetic walking in a calm and dignified manner, and asking who that was, was told by his charioteer the character and aims of the Wanderers, the travelling teachers, who played so great a part in the intellectual life of the time.
The elector was a great hunter and a hard drinker, whose brave and dignified bearing in a time of misfortune won for him his surname of Magnanimous, and drew eulogies from Roger Ascham and Melanchthon.
He is described as a quiet, kindly, dignified man, honest of purpose, but unfitted by his advanced age and temperament, as well as by feeble health, to bear the weight of empire.
This landing-place is dignified with the name of Port Durnford.
His best work is found in the volume of odes called The Unknown Eros, which is full not only of passages but of entire poems in which exalted thought is expressed in poetry of the richest and most dignified melody.
Its style, though in the main rather unnatural and declamatory, is at its best spontaneous, dignified and rhythmical; the book is valuable for occasional facts and for its picture of the times, and it did much to make Mather the most eminent American writer of his day.
The graceful precision and dignified familiarity of the epistle are particularly attractive to the temperament of France.
The severe but dignified letter to Walpole, in which Butler accepted the preferment, showed that the slight was felt and resented.
With a very few exceptions the speeches are dignified in tone, full of life and have at least a dramatic propriety, while of such incongruous and laboured absurdities as the speech which Dionysius puts into the mouth of Romulus, after the rape of the Sabine women, there are no instances in Livy.
Although his great reputation was chiefly earned as a foreign minister, it may be said that the last ten years of his life, in which he filled other offices, were not the least useful or dignified portion of his career.
Finally, all idea of the divine vanished, and the artists merely presented her as the type of a beautiful woman, with oval face, full of grace and charm, languishing eyes, and laughing mouth, which replaced the dignified severity and repose of the older forms. The most famous of her statues in ancient times was that at Cnidus, the work of Praxiteles, which was imitated on the coins of that town, and subsequently reproduced in various copies, such as the Vatican and Munich.
He evinced no rancour or spite; his " Farewell Sermon " was dignified and temperate; nor is it to be ascribed to chagrin that in a letter to Scotland after his dismissal he expresses his preference for Presbyterian to Congregational church government.
In matters of the heart, if any consoling or any disturbing passion played a great part in his life, we do not know it; we know only (apart from a few passing shadows cast by calumny and envy) of affectionate and dignified relations with friends, patrons and pupils, of public and private regard mixed in the days of his youth with dazzled admiration, and in those of his age with something of reverential awe.
An attitude so indecent threatened to defeat the very objects of the reactionary powers, and Gentz congratulated the congress that these sorry protests would be buried in the archives, offering at the same time to write for the king a dignified letter in which he should express his reluctance at having to violate his oaths in the face of irresistible force !
He chose the epithet Arya as being more dignified than the slightly contemptuous term Hindu.
He was indifferent to luxury, and sought to make life, not commodious nor soft, but high and dignified in a refined way.
The ex-sultan was conveyed into dignified captivity at Salonica.
A more dignified type is the Vatican statue of Silenus carrying the infant Dionysus, and the marble group from the villa Borghese in the Louvre.
The dignified buildings of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are near.
The Royal Society, the most dignified and influential of all, was incorporated by Charles II.
Simple as his language is, it is dignified and worthy of its subject.
Eugenius was dignified in demeanour, but inexperienced and vacillating in action and excitable in temper.
In a dignified speech he bade farewell to those about him, and then retiring to rest slept soundly for some hours.
The statement that he was created earl of Ulster, and that he was thus "the first Englishman dignified with an Irish title of honour," is equally devoid of foundation.
But, on the news of Louis Philippe's acceptance of the crown, he gave up the contest and began a dignified retreat to the sea-coast, followed by his suite, and surrounded by the infantry, cavalry and artillery of the guard.
Ajmere is almost totally devoid of rivers, the Banas being the only stream which can be dignified with that name, and it only touches the south-eastern boundary of the district so as to irrigate the pargana of Samur.
He continued to wait at dinner with the pages, although in a manner more dignified according to the notions of the age.
His administration was lacking in political situations of a dramatic character, but on all questions that arose his policy was sane and dignified.
Mary received the announcement with majestic tranquillity, expressing in dignified terms her readiness to die, her consciousness that she was a martyr for her religion, and her total ignorance of any conspiracy against the life of Elizabeth.
Charles X., after abdicating, had made a dignified exit from France, marching to the coast surrounded by the cavalry, infantry and artillery of his Guard.
Several of the more important fragments are found in Cicero, who expresses a great admiration for their manly fortitude and dignified pathos.
The frank bearing, fortitude and self-sacrificing heroism of the best type of the soldierly character find expression in the persons of Achilles, Telamon and Eurypylus; and a dignified and passionate tenderness of feeling makes itself heard in the lyrical utterances of Cassandra and Andromache.
He also built the simple and dignified temple of Medinet Habu at Thebes, which was afterward overshadowed by the grandiose work of Rameses III.
They have indeed a style of their own; always dignified, and occasionally rising into eloquence.
Among the former it appears to have become a sort of ex officio title of the Byzantine vicegerents of Italy, the exarchs of Ravenna; among the barbarian chiefs who were thus dignified were Odoacer, Theodoric, Sigismund of Burgundy, Clovis, and even in later days princes of Bulgaria, the Saracens, and the West Saxons.
Except perhaps the silversmiths, no one was conscious of being engaged in "art metal-working," yet the average is neither vulgar nor in bad taste, and the larger works are both dignified and suited to their architectural surroundings.
His clear, exhaustive and dignified style of treatment evidences the rectitude and nobility of the man.
When the Assembly met it became apparent that the great majority were more anxious to act as a dignified branch of the legislature than to maintain consistency with their pre-election declarations.
Caelius writes in a breezy, school-boy style; the Latinity of Plancus is Ciceronian in character; the letter of Sulpicius to Cicero on the death of Tullia is a masterpiece of style; Matius writes a most dignified letter justifying his affectionate regard for Caesar's memory.
The Roman title of duke was less dignified than that of count (comes, companion) which implied an honourable personal relation to the emperor (see Count).
Though commonly dignified and a little stiff he seems to have had a strong sense of humour and he was fond of telling a good story.
To the request of the king for protection he replied in dignified and respectful language.
His presence was dignified, his voice capable of indefinite modulation, and his gestures animated and attractive.
In a dignified landscape setting on the brow of a hill that is itself nearly loo ft.
In the estimation of these people "Siva and Vishnu may be more dignified beings, but the village deity is regarded as a more present help in trouble, and more intimately concerned with the happiness and prosperity of the villagers.