| This is the sort of person who steps up to the plate when offices and dignities are being passed around. |
| He cultivated an image of Olympian detachment by scrupulously protecting the respective ranks and dignities of the grandees. |
| But they were connected also with the special rights of Hungarian kings concerning the distribution of ecclesiastical dignities in their country. |
| Honours and dignities are transient, beauty and riches frail and fugacious, to a proverb. |
| Later he was accused of plotting against Justinian and stripped of his dignities. |
| Either of these dignities was often conferred by way of compliment on the emperor, who usually discharged its duties by deputy. |
