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Definition of Kingliness
1. n. The state or quality of being kingly.
Definition of Kingliness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being kingly. ¹
2. Noun. The result or product of being kingly. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Kingliness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kingliness
Literary usage of Kingliness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical English for Seventh and Eighth Grades by James Witt Sewell (1911)
"What impression does the picture make upon you—do you think of the beauty of the
animal, its power, its cruelty, its treachery, or its kingliness ? ..."
2. The Life Indeed: A Review, in Terms of Common Thinking, of the Scripture by John Franklin Genung (1921)
"The true kingliness wins, not subdues; or rather, it subdues by winning. ...
Here was the real kingliness, a kingliness that created, not destroyed; ..."
3. The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture by Joseph Parker (1891)
"A king without kingliness—is there any irony so mocking and tormenting ? Better be
a good hearer than a bad preacher. Whatever we are let us be that well. ..."
4. Papers from a Viceroy's Yamen: A Chinese Plea for the Cause of Good by Hung-ming Ku (1901)
"The Chinese idea of kingliness is— hero worship. The Chinese word which Confucius
uses for Carlyle's "Hero," translated by Dr. Legge as the superior man, ..."
5. A homiletical commentary on the Books of Kings by George Barlow (1885)
"When will men remember that there is a higher kingliness—that instead of virtue
... There is a kingliness of name, but there is also a kingliness of nature. ..."
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