Collocations for dignity - noun

enormous, great | calm, quiet
She spoke to him with quiet dignity.

human, personal
the importance of human dignity

have, possess
These people have enormous dignity.

keep, maintain, preserve, retain
We all want to maintain our dignity in old age.

give sb
Being treated in the privacy of your own room gives you more dignity.

lose
The awful thing about old age is losing your dignity.

destroy, rob/strip sb of, threaten
Slavery destroys human dignity. | Keeping prisoners in such dreadful conditions strips them of all dignity.

muster
With as much dignity as he could muster, he left the room.

stand on
(= insist on the respect you think you deserve) She was never one to stand on her dignity.

beneath your ~
He clearly regarded manual work as beneath his dignity.

with ~
the right to die with dignity

an air of dignity
His aristocratic voice gives him an air of dignity and power.

lacking in dignity
We felt that the way she was treated was lacking in dignity.

a lack of dignity, a loss of dignity
He hoped that he could change his mind without loss of dignity.

a sense of dignity
She had a strong sense of dignity.

with your dignity intact
He needed a way to retreat with his dignity intact.