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stand upon one's dignity

stand upon one's dignity verb: to have or affect a high notion of one's own rank, privilege, or character.

Verb

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)

  1. (dated) To have or affect a high notion of one's own rank, privilege, or character.
    • They did not stand upon their dignity, nor give their minds to being or to seeming as elegant and as fine as anybody else.1881, Richard Grant White, “Habits of English Life”, in The Atlantic Monthyl
    • "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.1915, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear, Part 2 Chapter 2

Forms of stand upon one's dignity

third-person singular presentstands upon one's dignity
present participlestanding upon one's dignity
past participlestood upon one's dignity
paststood upon one's dignity

Questions about stand upon one's dignity

What does stand upon one's dignity mean?
Stand upon one's dignity means to have or affect a high notion of one's own rank, privilege, or character.
What part of speech is stand upon one's dignity?
Stand upon one's dignity is a verb.
What is the past tense of stand upon one's dignity?
The past tense of stand upon one's dignity is stood upon one's dignity.

Words near stand upon one's dignity in the dictionary

  1. stand up to
  2. stand up to be counted
  3. stand up to one's lick log
  4. stand up with
  5. stand upon
  6. stand upon one's dignity
  7. stand upon one's terms
  8. stand upon points
  9. stand with
  10. stand'st
  11. stand-alone

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