queenly
/ˈkwiːnli
/adjective (queenlier, queenliest)
Resembling, fit for, or appropriate to a queen: a dark-haired woman of queenly manner...
- I came down and, in a pillared hall within the temple, the emperor stood in regal splendour - a queenly woman beside him - caught in a moment of deep crisis.
- Just four months before Pearl Harbor the queenly Augusta had carried President Roosevelt to a quiet Newfoundland bay for the first of many historic meetings with Winston Churchill.
- I was walking in queenly honor and majesty feeling enormous pleasure and gratitude to all in my life who bring me so much joy.
Derivatives
queenliness
- As Matthew Woodcock points out, there have been many studies of queenliness in Spenser's The Faerie Queene, but very few that made sense of the poet's use of fairy.
- The set of her head at downstage left and the slight angle of the jaw conveyed queenliness and deadly resolve.
- And let the last word quoted here be one of Elizabeth's own, illustrative of her strangely mingled temperament of queenliness and insolence.
Rhymes
- sporting celebrity
- sporting chance
- sporting editor
- sporting fish
- sporting girl
- sporting house
- sportingly
- sporting man
- sporting matter
- sporting parson
- sporting print
- sporting shoot
- sporting time
- sportive
- sportive lemur
- sportively
- sportiveness
- sport jacket
- sport-jacketed
- sportless
- sportly
- sport psychologist
- sport psychology
- sports agent
- sports anaemia