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Definition of Stately

1. Adjective. Impressive in appearance. "Stately columns"

2. Adjective. Of size and dignity suggestive of a statue.

3. Adjective. Refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court. "A courtly gentleman"

Definition of Stately

1. a. Evincing state or dignity; lofty; majestic; grand; as, statelymanners; a stately gait.

2. adv. Majestically; loftily.

Definition of Stately

1. Adjective. Of people: regal, dignified; worthy of respect. ¹

2. Adjective. Of movement: dignified; deliberate, unhurried. ¹

3. Adjective. Imposing; grand, impressive. ¹

4. Adverb. In a stately manner. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stately

1. dignified [adj -LIER, -LIEST]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stately

statehouse statehouses stateless stateless person statelessly statelessness statelessnesses statelet statelets statelier

stateliest statelike statelily stateliness statelinesses stately (current term) stately home statemate statemates statement

statement of claim statement of intent statemental statemented statementing statements statements of intent statemonger statemongers stateprison

Literary usage of Stately

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

1. A Dictionary of Similes by Frank Jenners Wilstach (1916)
"stately as a forest monarch. — IBID. stately and pure as the swan on the lake. ... stately as a deer with antlers. — LONGFELLOW. stately as a palm-tree ..."

2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"And all the body on the bier was veil'd With tresses, which the mourners from their locks Had shorn and cast upon him ; at his head stately Achilles moved, ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"THOMAS JOSEPH GARB, on the solid foundation laid by his predecessor, the first Bishop of Melbourne, has raised a stately and imposing edifice. ..."

4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"After the ground was cleared, th<; restitution of those stately structures which had been levelled with the dust, and of the precious ornaments which had ..."

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