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

kinghood
kinghoods
kinging
kingite
kingklip
kingklips
kingle
kingles
kingless
kinglet
kinglets
kinglier
kingliest
kinglihood
kinglike
kingliness (current term)
kinglinesses
kingling
kinglings
kingly
kingmaker
kingmakers
kingmaking
kingpin
kingpins
kingpost
kingposts
kingric
kings
kings' ransoms

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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