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  • The word dignitas is a Latin rhetorical and political term indicating either the possession of high political or social rank or the moral qualities associated with it.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas CHARLES TRINKAUS 1968

  • You, standing proud in your "dignitas" could've called the Republicans 'bluff and filibustered his nomination.

    Dear Senator Robert C. Byrd; How about that Alito? 2007

  • He links the meals to the French adage "le roi ne meurt jamais" "the king never dies", and explains that the monarch's dignitas, or authority, outlived his bodily presence.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Julianne Douglas 2008

  • The rise of race suicide again in France Roman Gaul where the dignitas family lost once more its conception that it exists for purposes of reproduction.

    Archive 2008-02-24 papabear 2008

  • Not being able to achieve it, especially among those cultures derived from the barbarian, by the use of a concubinatus or non-dignitas form, they have led the way in breaking up the dignitas form.

    Archive 2008-02-24 papabear 2008

  • The development of a “public” which would not permit dual marriage forms, along with the rise of social and intellectual classes who want non-dignitas marriage.

    Archive 2008-02-24 papabear 2008

  • He links the meals to the French adage "le roi ne meurt jamais" "the king never dies", and explains that the monarch's dignitas, or authority, outlived his bodily presence.

    Dining with the Dead Julianne Douglas 2008

  • The spread of this idea into cultures derived from barbarian law England, Sweden, Germany, and the United States where the dignitas family also lost its reproductive conceptions.

    Archive 2008-02-24 papabear 2008

  • Tiberius, and Haman by Ahasuerus: I resolve with Gregory, potestas culminis, est tempestas mentis; et quo dignitas altior, casus gravior, honour is a tempest, the higher they are elevated, the more grievously depressed.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • He keeps in for state, ne majestatis dignitas evilescat, as our China kings, of Borneo, and Tartarian Chams, those aurea mancipia, are said to do, seldom or never seen abroad, ut major sit hominum erga se observantia, which the [3704] Persian kings so precisely observed of old.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

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