dignity

英 ['d?gn?t?] 美['d?ɡn?ti]

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復數:?dignities;

dignity 高貴，尊嚴

來自PIE*deik, 接受，體面，得體，詞源同decent, doctor.

dignity: dignity: [13] Dignity comes via Old French dignete from Latin dignitās, a derivative of dignus ‘worthy’. Also from the same source was Latin dignāre (source of English deign and its derivative disdain) and late Latin dignificāre (source of English dignify [15]). Dignus itself probably came from an earlier unrecorded *decnus ‘suitable, fitting’, a derivative of the verb decere, which produced English decent. Other related words in English include condign [15] and indignant [16], while dignitās also produced, via a different line of descent, English dainty.
=> condign, dainty, deign, disdain, indignant
dignity (n.): early 13c., from Old French dignite "dignity, privilege, honor," from Latin dignitatem (nominative dignitas) "worthiness," from dignus "worth (n.), worthy, proper, fitting" from PIE *dek-no-, from root *dek- "to take, accept" (see decent).

1. It's an affront to human dignity to keep someone alive like this.: 如此維持一個人的生命是對人類尊嚴的冒犯。

2. She's got too much dignity to descend to writing anonymous letters.: 她是個自尊心很強的人，絕不會自貶身份去寫匿名信。

3. He suffered a long series of illnesses with tremendous dignity and fortitude.: 他憑借超乎常人的保持生命尊嚴的信念和頑強意志力忍受著各種病痛的折磨。

4. She looks terrible, shorn of all her beauty and dignity.: 失去了美貌和尊嚴，她看上去糟透了。

5. There was elegance and simple dignity in the way he bore himself.: 他舉止優雅而莊重。