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Definition of Stateliness
1. Noun. An elaborate manner of doing something. "She served coffee with great stateliness"
2. Noun. Impressiveness in scale or proportion.
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
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Stateliness
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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