dignities
- 1Plural of dignity.
The monarch bestowed various dignities upon the nobles gathered at court.
Over his long career he accumulated honors and dignities from several institutions.
Note
A plural that pulls the word toward things that can be counted: offices, ranks and stations, the honors a monarch confers, and even the people who hold them, since a dignity can also be a dignitary. The abstract quality of worth is far less often pluralized. One obsolete strand survives in the plural too: dignities as fundamental principles or maxims, a meaning now found only in older texts.
dignities is a form of dignity
dignity, noun: The state of being worthy of esteem, marked by elevation of mind or character. Full entry
- Forms
- dignitydignities plural
- Spelling
- dignity → dignities: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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