Synonyms for stateliness

Grammar : Noun

Spell : steyt-lee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈsteɪt li

Top 10 synonyms for stateliness

Other synonyms for the word stateliness

Définition of stateliness

Origin : "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.

As in nobility : noun aristocracy; eminence
As in splendor : noun radiance, glory
As in magnificence : noun grandeur
As in majesty : noun grandeur
As in elegancy : noun elegance
As in noblesse : noun nobility
As in dignity : noun excellence, nobility
As in grandeur : noun great importance
As in greatness : noun nobleness of character; eminence

Example sentences :

I have explored its large and little streets, its stateliness and its slums.
Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service

We marched along like this with all the stateliness and solemnity of camels!
Extract from : « My Double Life » by Sarah Bernhardt

I prefer a tendency to stateliness to an excess of fellowship.
Extract from : « Essays, Second Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The stateliness of her figure completed the impression of a Roman matron.
Extract from : « Dreamers of the Ghetto » by I. Zangwill

Where's dignity, leisure, stateliness; where's Art and Eloquence?
Extract from : « More Trivia » by Logan Pearsall Smith

A vision of Cecilia swam before him, gracious in stateliness.
Extract from : « Beauchamp's Career, Complete » by George Meredith

The stateliness of the youth struck me: he held himself like an emperor.
Extract from : « Brittany » by Mortimer Menpes and Dorothy Menpes

It has a stateliness which makes it well adapted to dignified themes.
Extract from : « English Narrative Poems » by Various

The sugar in her mouth did not impair the stateliness of her manner and utterance.
Extract from : « The Last Entry » by William Clark Russell

"That could never matter," Walter said, with some stateliness.
Extract from : « The Wizard's Son, vol. 3 » by Margaret Oliphant

Antonyms for stateliness

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