Dignitary

(n.) One who possesses exalted rank or holds a position of dignity or honor; especially, one who holds an ecclesiastical rank above that of a parochial priest or clergyman.

杰弗里整理

• Now, the supervising dignitary, the Archbishop of Greenwich, knew this as well as if he had performed the nuptial ceremony. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Imagine a poor Frenchman ignorantly intruding upon a public rostrum sacred to some six-penny dignitary in America. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The Turkish dignitary yawns and expresses signs of weariness and idleness. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Among the latter was the Prior of Jorvaulx, in the most gallant trim which a dignitary of the church could venture to exhibit. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• At the end were the signatures of the high dignitaries who had signed it. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• This in itself was not a bad thing for the lower clergy in France, who were often scandalously underpaid in comparison with the richer dignitaries. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A number of great dignitaries of the Empire, in undress unit forms, came with them. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It had to assume a severely technical form because the dignitaries of the church, ignorant and intolerant, were on the watch for heresy. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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