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stateliness|ˈsteɪtlɪnɪs|
[f. stately a. + -ness.]
†1. Haughtiness, arrogance. Obs.
1509Barclay Shyp of Folys 90 Suche as foloweth shamefull wantonnes, Ungoodly luste, and statelynes of mynde. 1513Bradshaw St. Werburge i. 1860 Pryde, statelenes, and sensualyte Were not in her founde. 1530Palsgr. 275/2 Statelynesse, arrogance, bourgoisie. 1582Bentley Mon. Matrones 96 Thou hast meekened me,..to put from me all manner of presumption, and statelinesse of hart. 1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 33 Did they but know how much better I find ye esteem it to imitate the old and elegant humanity of Greece, then the barbarick pride of a Hunnish and Norwegian stateliness.
2. Lofty dignity of manner or behaviour. Sometimes with unfavourable notion: Repellent dignity, stiffness or formality of manners.
a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. ii. (Sommer) 103 b, It pleased the Princesse (in whom indeede statelines shines through courtesie) to let fall some gratious looke vpon me. 1654Cokaine Dianea i. 19 Her entreaties were delivered with such an inbred statelinesse, that they seemed rather commands then prayers. a1700Evelyn Diary 14 Jan. 1682, He told him likewise of his stateliness and difficulty of accesse. 1740Richardson Pamela II. 310 They rallied him on the Stateliness of his Temper. 1828D'Israeli Chas. I, III. ii. 17 There was a cold reserve in his speech, and a stateliness in his habits. 1879Morley Burke i. 9 A certain inborn stateliness of nature, which made him unwilling to waste thoughts on the less dignified parts of life.
†3. Loftiness of position or rank. Also, as a title of dignity. Obs.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 332 For some haue beene aduaunced to degrees of statelynesse, through the noblenesse of their byrth. 1638W. Lisle Heliodorus vii. 112 And when he came her Statelinesse [the Princess] before, They will'd him, yet he would not her adore.
4. Nobleness of proportion or design; grandeur, magnificence.
1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 431/1 The said dukes house of the Sauoie, to the which in beautie and statelinesse of building..there was not any other in the realme comparable. 1615G. Sandys Trav. i. 31 Mosaike painting..composed of little square pieces of marble; gilded and coloured..: which set together, as if imbossed, present an vnexpressible statelinesse. 1748Anson's Voy. iii. ii. 313 The stateliness, freshness, and fragrance of its woods. 1869Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) III. xii. 236 Its walls indeed crown..a height great enough to give the minster yet further stateliness in the view from the lower ground. 1914Blackw. Mag. Feb. 243/2 A monument of amazing stateliness.
5. Imposing dignity of personal aspect or carriage.
a1667Cowley Ess., Of Greatness (1906) 429 Like a Daughter of great Jupiter for the stateliness and largeness of her person. 1784Cowper Task v. 76 The cock foregoes His wonted strut; and..seems to resent His alter'd gait and stateliness retrench'd. 1833Tennyson Eleänore iv, How many measured words adore The full-flowing harmony Of thy swan-like stateliness Eleänore? 1885Manch. Exam. 20 Mar. 8/6 His bearing had always a kind of stateliness, utterly free from pomp or pretence.
6. Loftiness of diction, dignity of style in speech or writing.
1591Harington Orl. Fur. Pref. ⁋iij b, Heroicall Poesie, that with her sweet statelinesse doth erect the mind. 1649F. Roberts Clavis Bibl. 404 The Princely statelinesse of his stile hath inclined some to believe that he [Isaiah] was of the blood-Royal. 1789Belsham Ess. I. xii. 231 The Spenserian stanza must be allowed to exhibit a certain air of stateliness. 1884R. W. Church Bacon ix. 222 The stateliness and dignity of the Latin corresponded to the proud claims which he made for his conception of the knowledge which was to be. |