Definition of Stateliness

1. Noun. An elaborate manner of doing something. "She served coffee with great stateliness"

Generic synonyms: Formality, Formalness
Derivative terms: Stately

2. Noun. Impressiveness in scale or proportion.
Exact synonyms: Loftiness, Majesty
Generic synonyms: Grandness, Impressiveness, Magnificence, Richness
Derivative terms: Lofty, Lofty, Majestic, Stately, Stately

Definition of Stateliness

1. n. The quality or state of being stately.

Definition of Stateliness

1. Noun. The quality or state of being stately ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stateliness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stateliness

statehooders
statehoods
statehouse
statehouses
stateless
stateless person
statelessly
statelessness
statelessnesses
statelet
statelets
statelier
stateliest
statelike
statelily
stateliness (current term)
statelinesses
stately
stately home
statemate
statemates
statement
statement of claim
statement of intent
statemental
statemented
statementing
statements
statements of intent
statemonger

Literary usage of Stateliness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Bay of San Francisco: The Metropolis of the Pacific Coast and Its by Lewis Publishing Company (1892)
"... kind and true; with a stateliness of manner that repels undue familiarity, and an earnestness of character that does not invite jesting, his society is ..."

2. Public Characters by Alexander Stephens (1801)
"His manners are frank without vulgarity, and courteous •without affected stateliness; and his conversation is, in a high degree, rich, various, and pleasing ..."

3. Tait's Edinburgh Magazine by William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone (1849)
"service—and was known to the peasantry as Madame, from a certain stateliness of manner, tempered with extreme urbanity. Old people in the parish of ..."

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