Definition of "dignity"

He uttered this ... with great majesty, or, as he called it, dignity.

1751 December (indicated as 1752), Henry Fielding, chapter VIII, in Amelia. […], volume I, London: […] [William Strahan] for A[ndrew] Millar […]

Every individual shall have the right to the respect of the dignity inherent in a human being.

1981, African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, art. 5

Official DIGNITY tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held.

1934, Aldous Huxley, “Puerto Barrios”, in Beyond the Mexique Bay

Note the preſumption of this Scythian ſlaue:I tel thee villaine, thoſe that lead my horſeHaue to their names tytles of dignitie,And dar’ſt thou bluntly cal me Baiazeth?

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, Act III, scene iii

And the king said, What honour and dignity hath been done to Mordecai for this?

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Esther 6:3

He ... distributed the civil and military dignities among his favourites and followers.

1781, Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, F. III. 231

These filthy dreamers […] speak evil of dignities.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Jude 1:8

Sciences concluding from dignities, and principles known by themselves.

1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […]