Vocabulary Word
Word: dignitary
Definition: person of high rank or position
Definition: person of high rank or position
Sentences Containing 'dignitary'
``Kieou he yu -LRB- great dignitary of the state of Wei -RRB- sent a man to Khoung tseu to know his news.
They did not care to take the trouble of disabusing him of his error, as they considered that since it did not in any way hurt his conscience it would be better to leave him in it, and they would have all the more amusement in listening to his simplicities; and so they bade him pray to God for his lord's health, as it was a very likely and a very feasible thing for him in course of time to come to be an emperor, as he said, or at least an archbishop or some other dignitary of equal rank.
Their cravats were in general stiff, I thought, and their looks haughty; but in this last respect I presently conceived I had done them an injustice, for when two or three of them had to rise and answer a question of the presiding dignitary, I never saw anything more sheepish.
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