Meanings of own respectability in English

Such a charming, bright-eyed, and well-behaved dog imparted her own respectability to Andrew.

Like the letter you wrote to me, praising someone else to guarantee your own respectability.

People fully aware of their own respectability should never be afraid to bow first, speak first, or call first.

Filled with joy at one's own respectability of birth, one is seen to traduce those that are not high-born.

All this to save the threatened authority of their religion and their own respectability and good name in cultured society.

The people who assembled in Mrs. Frostwinch's handsome parlors usually seemed to be unconsciously laboring under the burden of their own respectability.

Mrs. Dubbs first exposed the situation, then expressed a strong opinion as to her own respectability, and finally asked Miss More's advice.

No, by jingo- Ibegyour pardon- Iwasabout to say, my own respectability rather bothers me; I shall get used to it in time.