"dignitude" meaning in All languages combined

See dignitude on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Rho9998-dignitude.wav [UK]
Etymology: dignity + -itude, originally a parody of uneducated speech. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|dignity|itude}} dignity + -itude Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} dignitude (uncountable)
  1. (humorous) Dignity, especially an overblown or false sense of dignity. Tags: humorous, uncountable
    Sense id: en-dignitude-en-noun-I8I4PQfC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -itude

Download JSON data for dignitude meaning in All languages combined (2.0kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "dignity",
        "3": "itude"
      },
      "expansion": "dignity + -itude",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "dignity + -itude, originally a parody of uneducated speech.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "dignitude (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -itude",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1877, Mary Kyle Dallas, The Grinder Papers, G. W. Carleton & Company",
          "text": "I pranced along with the dignitude o' a queen, and didn't condescend fur tu give none o' the men sect a glance, and 'twasn't my conduct what injuced him fur tu redress me.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1895, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch, volumes 100-109, page 197",
          "text": "A ghost-seer's dignitude does not stand on end if 'e twigs that 'is cackle is met with a smile.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2019. Scott Lemieux, \"Republicans Again Uphold the Equal Sovereign Dignitude of the States\", Lawyers, Guns & Money."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Dignity, especially an overblown or false sense of dignity."
      ],
      "id": "en-dignitude-en-noun-I8I4PQfC",
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(humorous) Dignity, especially an overblown or false sense of dignity."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humorous",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Rho9998-dignitude.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/82/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Rho9998-dignitude.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Rho9998-dignitude.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/82/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Rho9998-dignitude.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Rho9998-dignitude.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (UK)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dignitude"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "dignity",
        "3": "itude"
      },
      "expansion": "dignity + -itude",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "dignity + -itude, originally a parody of uneducated speech.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "dignitude (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English humorous terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -itude",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1877, Mary Kyle Dallas, The Grinder Papers, G. W. Carleton & Company",
          "text": "I pranced along with the dignitude o' a queen, and didn't condescend fur tu give none o' the men sect a glance, and 'twasn't my conduct what injuced him fur tu redress me.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1895, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Punch, volumes 100-109, page 197",
          "text": "A ghost-seer's dignitude does not stand on end if 'e twigs that 'is cackle is met with a smile.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "2019. Scott Lemieux, \"Republicans Again Uphold the Equal Sovereign Dignitude of the States\", Lawyers, Guns & Money."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Dignity, especially an overblown or false sense of dignity."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "humorous",
          "humorous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(humorous) Dignity, especially an overblown or false sense of dignity."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "humorous",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Rho9998-dignitude.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/82/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Rho9998-dignitude.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Rho9998-dignitude.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/8/82/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Rho9998-dignitude.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Rho9998-dignitude.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (UK)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "dignitude"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.