Citations:digne

English citations of digne

modern English

• 1514, John Rastell, Tabula libri assisarum et placitorum corone; republished in Elizabeth M. Nugent, The Thought and Culture of the English Renaissance‎^[1], Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1956, page 169:

  Throughout all the world in every divers region, country, and coast, the thing that is ever among men most had in reputation and esteemed most digne and most universally desired is the public and commonweal of their country.

• 1561, Clément Marot, translated by Robert Norvell, The meroure of an Chrstiane^[sic]‎^[2], Edinburgh: Robert Lekprewik:

  Abyding the ransome, and the digne payment / Of the lambes oblation, for them all […]

• 1932, Bennett Cerf, The Arabian Nights, Or, The Book of a Thousand and One Nights, page 368:

  And fortune never loads them with loads the like o' mine: They live their happy days in all solace and delight; Eat, drink and dwell in honour 'mid the noble and the digne: All living things were made of a little drop of sperm, Thine origin is mine and my provenance is thine;

Possibly code-switching (french)

• 1878 June, Mrs. A. Sutherland Orr, “The Future of English Women”, in The Nineteenth Century, volume 3, number 16, page 1027:

  How far the change, within certain limits, might be beneficent, rendering woman more 'digne,' and man less overbearing, substituting facts for illusions in the minds of both, and din the conduct of men towards women, a more cisistent justice for the fitful generosity which so often usurps its place, has no bearing on the present question.

• 1897, Margaret Oliphant, Old Mr. Tredgold:

  It was a most digne retirement for a lady, quite the place for Katherine, many people thought; not like rooms in a town, but with the privacy of her own garden and nobody to interfere with her.

• 1919, The Athenæum, page 1122:

  Mr. Trevelyan is one of the most digne, most solid of contemporary poets.

• 1951, Accent: A Quarterly of New Literature - Volumes 11-12, page 231:

  For as the image of each action stirreth and instructeth the mind, so the lofty images of the Worthies most inflameth the mind with desire to be worthy [let us at this point interrupt to recall the the almost psychotic emphasis upon the digne and indigne in Corneille's tragedies, the test of worthiness being, of course, such as fits the ideals of the French court, or more specifically, submission to the French monarch, whose rule was by Corneille identified with both the will of God and the love of country] and informs with counsel how to be worthy.

• 1983, Alexander Maitland, Robert and Gabriela Cunninghame Graham, page 155:

  She decided to return home by the sea-route, prepared to be sick, but finding a ship less exhausting and a more digne way of locomotion than the train & hotel locusts.

• 2000, Charles Spencer, The Spencer Family, page 288:

  My dear S. looked most 'digne' and fine lying on his bed, a weary warrior at rest. R.I.P. - My dear old Brother.