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- noun Plural form of
dignitary .
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His daughters are also minor children, who are not in school – and travel and meeting foreign dignitaries is a life experience very few have.
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Hey “wittynamehere,” did you know your New Testament was produced, written and edited by a bunch of dignitaries from the Roman Empire in the year 325?
Think Progress » Paul Broun goes birther: ‘I don’t know’ if Obama is an American citizen. 2010
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Several wives and sons and daughters of the FEPOWs were also present, along with members of the TPCMS and dignitaries from the Taiwan government and the Water Conservation Agency that administers the site of the former camp.
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The foyer contains the airlocks, used by visitors and maintenance workers alike, as well as official dignitaries from the church.
365 tomorrows » Devotion : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2005
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The foyer contains the airlocks, used by visitors and maintenance workers alike, as well as official dignitaries from the church.
365 tomorrows » 2005 » December : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2005
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Several wives and sons and daughters of the FEPOWs were also present, along with members of the TPCMS and dignitaries from the Taiwan government and the Water Conservation
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The Chancellor of the university would entertain "dignitaries" - the Governor was scheduled to be among them - at his official residence at dinner.
The Private World of William Faulkner Coughlan, Robert, 1914- 1953
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Then he took a piece of paper and cutting it in pieces, said to the Wazir, “O Ja’afar, write down with thine own hand twenty sums of money, from one dinar to a thousand, and the names of all kinds of offices and dignitaries from the least appointment to the Caliphate; also twenty kinds of punishment from the lightest beating to death.”
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That is the place where the pope is now and that is the place where he will remain now for another two, two and a half hours for the so-called dignitaries to be able to see it.
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Among the dignitaries were the representatives from
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