An important or influential (and often overbearing) person.
Person granted an honorary title by a monarch or other political leader.
1 The dignitary retired, and the king was left alone in his apartment.
2 Presently the dignitary returned the picture and raised his head from thought.
3 Then the doctor was hastily summoned by telephone; the dignitary was collapsing.
4 If a foreign dignitary arrives, the flag of his nation is flown.
5 So they're excited at the prospect of preserving one last communist dignitary .
6 He must be a great dignitary at the court of King Assar.
7 It was organized by a Pageant Master, our mutual friend the dignitary .
8 One appeared to be a high dignitary of the Roman Catholic Church.
9 The Vienna Bakery arrived on the gastronomic scene like a visiting dignitary .
10 He is made to feel more like a dignitary than a sightseer.
11 The dignitary lifted the golden handcuffs from the pillow upon which they reposed.
12 This reverend gentleman was a high dignitary in the Catholic Church.
13 No ecclesiastical dignitary in Europe was his superior, except the Pope.
14 And the dignitary of the church sank back horrified into a horsehair arm-chair.
15 The appearance, in Liverpool, of this South African dignitary , created a considerable sensation.
16 Not every dignitary received such favor after long years of service.
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