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dignity | American Dictionary

dignity
noun[ U ]
us/ˈdɪɡ·nɪ·t̬i/
the quality of a person that makes him or her deserving of respect, sometimes shown in behavior or appearance:
Laws of privacy are designed to protect the dignity of individuals.

Examples of dignity

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The challenge for the wider community is to recognise the innate dignity of the dying, a recognition implicit in the rituals of some cultures.
Even if one did not make him responsible for his deeds by pledging insanity, the virtue of wisdom and therefore dignity would be lost.
They were also accounts of struggle and resistance, which included claims of worthiness and profound demands for life with dignity.
A multinational attacked the nation's dignity by colonising a national image for its global enterprise.
But it also protested against a resilient employer that failed to respond to long-standing grievances and loss of dignity.
People can debate the merits of different notions of dignity, and they can argue the relative significance of opposing concepts in ethical disputes.
In embracing freedom and autonomy as the basis of human dignity, such thinkers are as modern as their liberal opponents.
Some people find this idea somehow demeaning to human dignity.
Sensitivity to these issues will draw care providers closer to being able to provide comprehensive, dignity conserving care.
Dignified defiance is mostly fueled by dignity as a virtue, a strong sense of self-worth, courage, wisdom, temperance, and justice.
Psychological needs such as privacy and dignity are dealt with as care issues, rather than as building features which promote or facilitate them.
It is more consistent with human dignity for us to satisfy our wants through the market than through pre-market relations of generosity, patronage and dependence.
Why, then, should there be any peculiar loss of dignity accruing to the fact of contradicting and being contradicted in court?
But what exactly characterizes a "dignified being"; when is one deserving of other people's esteem due to one's dignity?
The combination of detailing, materials, and form produces rooms of great dignity, which is a necessary condition for the individuality of the home.
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Collocations withdignity

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equal dignity
All human free-manner-in equaldignity and right taken birth-take do.
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