"stand upon one's dignity" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stands upon one's dignity",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "standing upon one's dignity",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stood upon one's dignity",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stood upon one's dignity",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "stand<,,stood> upon one's dignity"
      },
      "expansion": "stand upon one's dignity (third-person singular simple present stands upon one's dignity, present participle standing upon one's dignity, simple past and past participle stood upon one's dignity)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1881, Richard Grant White, “Habits of English Life”, in The Atlantic Monthyl",
          "text": "They did not stand upon their dignity, nor give their minds to being or to seeming as elegant and as fine as anybody else.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1915, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear, Part 2 Chapter 2",
          "text": "\"By Gar! you've got an Irish tongue in your head anyhow,\" cried the saloon-keeper, not quite certain whether to humour this audacious visitor or to stand upon his dignity.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To have or affect a high notion of one's own rank, privilege, or character."
      ],
      "id": "en-stand_upon_one's_dignity-en-verb-uqQOzX27",
      "links": [
        [
          "affect",
          "affect"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) To have or affect a high notion of one's own rank, privilege, or character."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stand upon one's dignity"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stands upon one's dignity",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "standing upon one's dignity",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stood upon one's dignity",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stood upon one's dignity",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "stand<,,stood> upon one's dignity"
      },
      "expansion": "stand upon one's dignity (third-person singular simple present stands upon one's dignity, present participle standing upon one's dignity, simple past and past participle stood upon one's dignity)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1881, Richard Grant White, “Habits of English Life”, in The Atlantic Monthyl",
          "text": "They did not stand upon their dignity, nor give their minds to being or to seeming as elegant and as fine as anybody else.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1915, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear, Part 2 Chapter 2",
          "text": "\"By Gar! you've got an Irish tongue in your head anyhow,\" cried the saloon-keeper, not quite certain whether to humour this audacious visitor or to stand upon his dignity.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To have or affect a high notion of one's own rank, privilege, or character."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "affect",
          "affect"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dated) To have or affect a high notion of one's own rank, privilege, or character."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "dated"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "stand upon one's dignity"
}