queenly
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Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English queenly, quenly, from Old English cwēnlīċ, equivalent to queen + -ly.
Adjective edit
queenly (comparative queenlier, superlative queenliest)
- Having the status, rank or qualities of a queen; regal.
- 1860, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], The Mill on the Floss […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
- So Maggie, glad of anything that would soothe her mother, and cheer their long day together, consented to the vain decoration, and showed a queenly head above her old frocks, steadily refusing, however, to look at herself in the glass.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
- There was an innate refinement, a languid queenly hauteur about Gerty which was unmistakably evidenced in her delicate hands and higharched instep.
- 2018, Queen True, “A Royal Stink”, in True and the Rainbow Kingdom:
- I'm so sorry. If I'd done my queenly duties right, none of this would have happened. But maybe I can fix it with some wish help.
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Adverb edit
queenly (comparative queenlier, superlative queenliest)
- In a queenly manner; regally.