Dignity vs Commanding - What's the difference?
dignity | commanding |
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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Tending to give commands, authoritarian.
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, title= Impressively dominant.
The act of giving a command.
* 2006 , William E. Mann, Augustine's Confessions (page 172)
As nouns the difference between dignity and commanding
is that dignity is a quality or state worthy of esteem and respect while commanding is the act of giving a command.As a verb commanding is
.As an adjective commanding is
tending to give commands, authoritarian.dignity
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.
Synonyms
* worth * worthinessCoordinate terms
* augustness, humanness, nobility, majesty, grandeur, glory, superiority, wonderfulnessSee also
* affirmation * integrity * self-respect * self-esteem * self-worthReferences
Anagrams
*commanding
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}
Synonyms
* (tending to give commands) bossy, imposing * See alsoNoun
(en noun)- God could then have dispelled their ignorance by revealing to them that He had issued those commands; the fact of the occurrence of the earlier commandings would be the content of the revelation.