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VerbarMaestoso

Majestic or majestically a direction to perform a passage or piece of music in a dignified manner...


Oration

An elaborate discourse delivered in public treating an important subject in a formal and dignified manner especially a discourse having reference to some special occasion as a funeral an anniversary a celebration or the like distinguished from an argument in court a popular harangue a sermon a lecture etc as Websters oration at Bunker Hill...


Pomposo

Grand and dignified in grand style...


Portly

Having a dignified port or mien of a noble appearance imposing...


Slumming

Visiting slums Sometimes used humorously in reference to the appearance of a dignified person in a situation generally thought of as low class...


Civic nature

Civic nature, Mr. Patchotte -- Joyce, submits that such a construction is impossibly wide because any orgainsation which does not have positively anti-social aims could claim to have objects of a civic nature. I do not consider that is correct because the requirement that a body has objects which are of a civic nature if it is to be able to claim exemption means that the body must have objects which promote the relationship of citizens, not among themselves, but with the state of which they are citizens, Expert Witness Institute v. Customs Comrs. (CA), (2002) 1 WLR 1674.Meant aims which were dignified as distinct from efficient, Expert Witness Institute v. Customs Comrs. (CA), (2001) 1 WLR 1658....


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