What does stand upon one's dignity mean?

stand upon one's dignity

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.82 in modern English

Syllables: stand upon one's dig-ni-ty
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To have or affect a high notion of one's own rank, privilege, or character.

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Example Sentences

"They did not stand upon their dignity, nor give their minds to being or to seeming as elegant and as fine as anybody else."
""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."

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stands upon one's dignity (present, singular) standing upon one's dignity (participle, present) stood upon one's dignity (participle, past) stood upon one's dignity (past)

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