kingly

A purchase is theoretically possible and has historic precedents—although expanding one’s territory with gold or other payments has become rarer in modern times as nation states replaced empires and kingly realms.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 7, 2026

His pizzazz was a large measure of his appeal, along with his manufactured image as a shrewd businessman with a kingly touch and infallible judgment.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2026

Later they turn to kingly and materialistic protections against their wandering.

From Salon ● Mar. 31, 2024

Worn at every coronation since then, it symbolises kingly dignity.

From Reuters ● May 5, 2023

He set to work fashioning for himself a kingly cape made out of a scrap of the red tablecloth.

From "The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread" by Kate DiCamillo

Why, he was great of thews—and wise, thou say'st: Yet seems my sire to me the fairer-faced - The kinglier and the kindlier.

From Locrine: a tragedy by Algernon Charles Swinburne

And deeper joy, serener faith, Spring forth the golden crowns to grasp, While death, the monarch, gently lay’th Upon their brows a kinglier clasp.

From The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland by Various

Had he sentHis hundred thousand kernes to yonder steepAnd rolled its boulders down, and built a moleTo fence my laden ships from spring-tide surge,Far kinglier pattern had he shown, and givenMore solace to the land.”

From The Legends of Saint Patrick by Aubrey De Vere

But they fail not, the kinglier breed,   Who starry diadems attain; To dungeon, axe, and stake succeed   Heirs of the old heroic strain.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell

"Ah, wait," said Jean-aux-Choux—"wait till you have seen him on a battle-front, and you will be sure that, for all his faults, there never was a more manly man or a kinglier king!"

From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

For Afghanistan, that is the kingliest accomplishment of all.

From Time Magazine Archive

In soliloquy and song, in bantering bawdry and scalp-tingling rhetoric, in the kingliest English and in tender or rough translation, they speak to man from mankind's heart.

From Time Magazine Archive

As an Englishman I should say that he felt the weight of public opinion behind him all the while, without which in these days the kingliest nature must miss something of gravity.

From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

And let its mournful echoes roll From sphere to sphere, from pole to pole, O’er the flight of the greatest, kingliest soul That ever in battle fell.

From Songs and Ballads of the Southern People 1861-1865 by Anonymous

He was the kingliest, goodliest knight That ever England roved, The truest lover of sinful man That ever woman loved.

From Songs and Satires by Edgar Lee Masters