stately

Word Origin & History

"noble, splendid," late 14c., from state (n.1) in a sense of "costly and imposing display" (such as benefits a person of rank and wealth), early 14c.; a sense also preserved in the phrase to lie in state "to be ceremoniously exposed to view before interment" (1705). Hence also stateroom.

Example Sentences forstately

Over the octagonal window, too, such draperies fell in stately lines.

Eudora paced down the sidewalk with a magnificent, stately gait.

Stately priests in long chitons paced to the music of flutes.

Adv.: wsa fengel geatolc gengde, passed on in a stately manner, 1402.

People understood that Tellson's, in a stately way, tolerated the odd-job-man.

The stately residence of Monseigneur was altogether blighted and deserted.

Oh, how stately the hollyhocks towered on the borders of the shrubbery!

A battle should be like a stately minuet, with no loss of dignity or of etiquette.'

He was tall and stout, and carried himself in what seemed to me a stately manner.

He was the mightiest man of valor in that same day of this our life, stalwart and stately.

stately

princely

proud

prouder

proudest

regal

ritzy

royal

solemn

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