different between raising vs dignity

English

Etymology

From Middle English reisyng; equivalent to raise +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?z??/
• Rhymes: -e?z??
• Homophone: razing
• Hyphenation: rais?ing

Verb

raising

1. present participle of raise

Noun

raising (countable and uncountable, plural raisings)

1. Elevation.
2. Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity
3. Recruitment.
4. Collection or gathering, especially of money.
5. (US) The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.

   to help at a raising

6. (linguistics) The movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause.
7. (linguistics, phonetics) A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes higher or raised, meaning that the tongue becomes more elevated or positioned closer to the roof of the mouth than before.
8. The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
9. The substance used to make bread rise.
10. The process of deepening colours in dyeing.

Translations

Anagrams

• air sign, airings, arising

English

Etymology

From Middle English dignyte, from Old French dignité, from Latin d?gnit?s (“worthiness, merit, dignity, grandeur, authority, rank, office”), from d?gnus (“worthy, appropriate”), from Proto-Italic *degnos, from Proto-Indo-European *d?-nos, from *de?- (“to take”). See also decus (“honor, esteem”) and decet (“it is fitting”). Cognate to deign. Doublet of dainty.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??n?ti/

Noun

dignity (countable and uncountable, plural dignities)

1. The state of being dignified or worthy of esteem: elevation of mind or character.
   • 1752, Henry Fielding, Amelia, I. viii

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

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

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

2. Decorum, formality, stateliness.
   • 1934, Aldous Huxley, "Puerto Barrios", in Beyond the Mexique Bay:

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

3. High office, rank, or station.
   • 1781, Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, F. III. 231:

     He ... distributed the civil and military dignities among his favourites and followers.
4. One holding high rank; a dignitary.
5. (obsolete) Fundamental principle; axiom; maxim.

Synonyms

• worth
• worthiness

Coordinate terms

• augustness, humanness, nobility, majesty, grandeur, glory, superiority, wonderfulness

Related terms

• deign
• dignified
• dignify

Translations

See also

• affirmation
• integrity
• self-respect
• self-esteem
• self-worth

• dignity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• dignity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• tidying