Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Worthy; deserving.
  • Proud; disdainful.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Worthy; honorable; deserving.
  • adjective obsolete Suitable; adequate; fit.
  • adjective obsolete Haughty; disdainful.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete worthy; honourable; deserving
  • adjective obsolete suitable; adequate; fit
  • adjective obsolete haughty; disdainful

Etymologies

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French, from Latin dignus. See design.

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Examples

  • They then go to the priest, bow before him, and he blesses them with the words “Dominus sit in cordibus vestris et in labiis vestris”, and these alone; the rest of the blessing said to the deacon at Mass, “ut digne et competenter ...”, is omitted.

    Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 4.1 - Mass of Presanctified, Good Friday, Mass of the Catechumens and the Solemn Prayers 2009

  • Mais en dépit de tout ils se lèvent chaque matin et essaient de récolter une vie digne pour leurs familles et leurs communautés.

    Crossover Dreams: Fifteen minutes of undeserved fame in Port-au-Prince 2010

  • Je peux me permitter de vous dire que la séparation de Mr Frog et vous est passée à une façon très digne?

    le mariage 2008

  • Mais en dépit de tout ils se lèvent chaque matin et essaient de récolter une vie digne pour leurs familles et leurs communautés.

    Crossover Dreams: Fifteen minutes of undeserved fame in Port-au-Prince 2010

  • La pauvreté peut être digne (celle du paysan maître de sa terre et autonome), ce qui n'est pas le cas de la misère (paysan en bidonville, prolétarisé, méprisé).

    Archive 2009-04-10 2009

  • Cerasta enim Grece cornua dicuntur serpens que hic cornutus esse, ut supra memorauimus perhibetur per quem digne aduentus antichristi assertur, quia contra uitam fidelium cum morsu pestifere predicationis armabitur et iam carnibus potestatis.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • Fili carissime, digne censeri videtur filius, qui, paternos in bonis mores imitans, piam ejus nititur exequi voluntatem; nec proprie sibi sumit nomen heredis, qui salubribus predecessoris affectibus non adherit: Cupientes igitur, ut piam affectionem et scinceram delectionem, quam erga monasterium de Melros, ubi cor nostrum ex speciali devotione disposuimus tumularidum, et erga

    The Abbot 2008

  • Cerasta enim Grece cornua dicuntur serpens que hic cornutus esse, ut supra memorauimus perhibetur per quem digne aduentus antichristi assertur, quia contra uitam fidelium cum morsu pestifere predicationis armabitur et iam carnibus potestatis.

    Sigh. WMAM. 2008

  • Miror et stupeo cum coelum aspicio et pulchritudinem siderum, angelorum, &c. et quis digne laudet quod an nobis viget, corpus tam pulchrum, frontem pulchram, nares, genas, oculos, in ellectum, omnia pulchra; si sic in creaturis laboramus; quid in ipso deo?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Note 70: Chronicon rhythmicum austriacum, p. 356: Risum luctus occupat, digne lamentantur.

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

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