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1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. lxxxx Suche as foloweth shamefull wantonnes Ungoodly luste, and statelynes of mynde.

a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xviii. sig. f.iiii Pryde, statelenes, and sensualyte Were not in her founde.

1545 Queen Katherine Parr Prayers sig. C.vi Thou haste mekened me,..to put from me all maner of presumpcion, and statelinesse of herte.

1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 3 The barbarick pride of a Hunnish and Norwegian statelines.

a1677 I. Barrow Treat. Pope's Supremacy (1680) 233 A single example of arrogance or stateliness..is not to be set against so many modest and mannerly ones.

1738 S. Whatley tr. K. L. von Pöllnitz Mem. IV. 213 When he had to do with Persons from whom he expected any Services, all this Stateliness was laid aside.

1760 C. Allen Polite Lady xxxvii. 231 Suppose they were even your menial servants; is that a sufficient reason, do you think, for behaving to them with pride and stateliness?

1843 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 6 92 He was entirely free from anything approaching hauteur or stateliness.

1907 G. S. Richmond With Juliet in Eng. xv. 202 Haughtiness, pride, stateliness—these were not characteristics one could ever impute to the Western girl.

1541 T. Elyot Image of Gouernance vii. f. 15 He..compelled the senate and people to worshyp hym, as god, howe sone after was his statelynes tourned into mockery.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. ii. sig. O7^v It pleased the Princesse (in whom indeede statelines shines through courtesie) to let fall some gratious looke vpon me.

1654 A. Cokayne tr. G. F. Loredano Dianea i. 19 Her entreaties were delivered with such an inbred statelinesse, that they seemed rather commands then prayers.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1682 (1955) IV. 267 He told him likewise of his statlinesse, & difficulty of Accesse.

1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 310 They rallied him on the Stateliness of his Temper.

1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. ii. 17 There was a cold reserve in his speech, and a stateliness in his habits.

1879 J. Morley Burke i. 9 A certain inborn stateliness of nature..made him unwilling to waste thoughts on the less dignified parts of life.

1915 National Mag. 964/2 She had the assured stateliness of a society leader.

2005 A. Pritchard Eng. Biogr. in 17th Cent. v. 106 He wore plain clothing, exhibiting his aristocracy simply through his stateliness of manner.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark ix. f. lxv^v This prerogatiue is not estemed by riches, reuenues, power, statelynesse, and violence.

1576 A. Fleming tr. P. Manutius in Panoplie Epist. 332 For some haue beene aduaunced to degrees of statelynesse, through the noblenesse of their byrth.

1631 W. Lisle Faire Æthiopian vii. 112 And when he came her Statelinesse before, They will'd him, yet he would not her adore.

1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. 208 He waited till his Stateliness was moved to send up again, That he would wait on his Ladyship some other Time.

1816 W. Scott in Q. Rev. Jan. 290 Highland chiefs..distinguished in lowland society by an affectation of rank and stateliness, somewhat above their means.

1550 J. Harington tr. Cicero Bk. Freendeship f. 15 Let vs not measure it [sc. virtue] as certeine vnlearned men dooe, by the statelinesse of the woordes.

1591 J. Harington Briefe Apol. Poetrie in tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso sig. ¶iiij^v Heroicall Poesie, that with her sweet statelinesse doth erect the mind.

1649 F. Roberts Clavis Bibliorum (ed. 2) 404 The Princely statelinesse of his stile hath inclined some to believe that he [sc. Isaiah] was of the blood-Royal.

1714 A. Boyer Mem. Sir W. Temple 395 All that takes and affects you, is Stiffness and Stateliness, and Operoseness of Stile.

1789 W. Belsham Ess. I. xii. 231 The Spenserian stanza must be allowed to exhibit a certain air of stateliness.

1803 Edinb. Rev. July 282 She condemns the artificial stateliness and wearisome pomp of our modern tragedy.

1870 F. W. Farrar Families of Speech iii. 123 The metaphysical subtlety of Greek, its rich variety.., and the sonorous lilt of its epic verse, all contrast..with the grave unbending stateliness of the Hebrew.

a1905 L. Wallace Autobiogr. (1906) I. i. 5 A stateliness of speech and a certain dignity that comes of keeping good company.

2004 M. Swales in J. J. Long & A. Whitehead W. G. Sebald i. iii. 26 His..fondness for ‘fine writing’, for a certain spaciousness and stateliness of expression.

1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties f. 54^v He had buylded a gorgeous howse, & full of statelynesse.

1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 1026/2 The sayd dukes house of the Sauoy, to the whiche in beautie and statelinesse of buylding..there was not any other in the realme comparable.

1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey i. 31 Little square pieces of marble; gilded and coloured..which set together..present an vnexpressible statelinesse.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. ii. 313 The stateliness, freshness and fragrance of its woods.

1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (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.

1880 L. Wallace Ben-Hur (1887) vi. v. 422 The travellers glance at the Mount of Offence standing in rugged stateliness.

1914 Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 243/2 A monument of amazing stateliness.

1941 Indiana: Guide to Hoosier State (Federal Writers' Project) 206 Meridian Street, less important commercially but first in residential stateliness, expands northward.

2011 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 29 May (Travel) 10 An intimacy that contrasted starkly against the Great Synagogue's sophisticated stateliness.

1637 J. Bastwick Letany i. 6 The Statelinesse, severity, pride of their carriage.

a1667 A. Cowley Of Greatness in Ess. in Verse & Prose (1906) 429 Like a Daughter of great Jupiter for the stateliness and largeness of her person.

1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber xii. 227 The Beaux of those Days..had more of the Stateliness of the Peacock in their Mien.

1785 W. Cowper Task v. 76 The cock foregoes His wonted strut; and..seems to resent His alter'd gait and stateliness retrench'd.

1832 Ld. Tennyson Eleänore in Poems (new ed.) 27 How may measured words adore The fullflowing harmony Of thy swanlike stateliness, Eleänore?

1854 A. E. Baker Gloss. Northants. Words II. 313 An ostentatious air, an affectation of stateliness in the walk.

1885 Manch. Examiner 20 Mar. 8/6 His bearing had always a kind of stateliness, utterly free from pomp or pretence.

1939 Times 13 Oct. 11/5 The palm for pedestrianism..must go to flamingoes, in whose majestic stalk are best united the three cardinal virtues in walking—grace, dignity, and stateliness.

2002 S. Z. Ahmed Imperial Affair i. 14 She held her head high, her eyes flashed, and she possessed a stateliness of carriage and dignity which entranced him.