August vs Dignity - What's the difference?
august | dignity |
Noble, venerable, majestic, awe-inspiring, often of the highest social class (sometimes used ironically).
Of noble birth.
A quality or state worthy of esteem and respect.
* 1752 , (Henry Fielding), , I. viii
* 1981 , African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights , art. 5
* 2008 , Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology (ECNH) [Switzerland]
Decorum, formality, stateliness.
* 1934 , Aldous Huxley, "Puerto Barrios", in Beyond the Mexique Bay :
High office, rank, or station.
* 1781 , Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , F. III. 231:
* Macaulay
One holding high rank; a dignitary.
* Bible, Jude 8.
(obsolete) Fundamental principle; axiom; maxim.
* Sir Thomas Browne
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As a proper noun august
is the eighth month of the gregorian calendar, following july and preceding september abbreviation: aug' or ' or august can be .As a noun dignity is
a quality or state worthy of esteem and respect.august
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Adjective
(en-adj)- an august patron of the arts
- august lineage
Derived terms
* augustly * augustnessEtymology 2
From AugustAnagrams
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English
(wikipedia dignity)Noun
(dignities)- He uttered this ... with great majesty, or, as he called it, dignity .
- Every individual shall have the right to the respect of the dignity inherent in a human being.
- '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.
Dignity of Plants
- Official DIGNITY tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.Columbia World of Quotations 1996.
- He ... distributed the civil and military dignities among his favourites and followers.
- And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this?
- These filthy dreamers speak evil of dignities .
- Sciences concluding from dignities , and principles known by themselves.