- dignity
- nounADJECTIVE▪ enormous, great▪ calm, quiet▪
She spoke to him with quiet dignity.
▪ human, personal▪the importance of human dignity
VERB + DIGNITY▪ have, possess▪These people have enormous dignity.
▪ keep, maintain, preserve, protect, retain▪We all want to maintain our dignity in old age.
▪ give sb▪Being treated in the privacy of your own room gives you more dignity.
▪ bring▪He brings a quiet dignity to the role.
▪ regain, restore▪ respect▪ lose▪The awful thing about old age is losing your dignity.
▪ destroy, rob sb of, strip sb of▪Slavery destroys human dignity.
▪Keeping prisoners in such dreadful conditions strips them of all dignity.
▪ muster▪With as much dignity as he could muster, he left the room.
PREPOSITION▪ below sb's dignity (esp. AmE), beneath sb's dignity▪He clearly regarded manual work as beneath his dignity.
▪ with dignity▪the right to die with dignity
PHRASES▪ an air of dignity▪His aristocratic voice gives him an air of dignity and power.
▪ a lack of dignity▪ a loss of dignity▪He hoped that he could change his mind without loss of dignity.
▪ a sense of dignity▪She had a strong sense of dignity.
▪ with your dignity intact▪He needed a way to retreat with his dignity intact.
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
