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Webster 1913 Edition
Queenly
Queen′ly
,Adj.
[AS.
cwēnlic
feminine.] Like, becoming, or suitable to, a queen.
Webster 1828 Edition
Queenly
QUEE'NLY
,Adj.
Definition 2024
queenly
queenly
English
Adjective
queenly (comparative queenlier, superlative queenliest)
- Having the status, rank or qualities of a queen; regal.
- 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book IV, Chapter III,
- So Maggie, glad of anything that would soothe her mother, and cheer their long day together, consented to the vain decoration, and showed a queenly head above her old frocks, steadily refusing, however, to look at herself in the glass.
- 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses Chapter 13,
- There was an innate refinement, a languid queenly hauteur about Gerty which was unmistakably evidenced in her delicate hands and higharched instep.
- 1860, George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Book IV, Chapter III,
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Adverb
queenly (comparative queenlier, superlative queenliest)
- In a queenly manner; regally.