Stately
Evincing state or dignity; lofty; majestic; grand; as, statelymanners; a stately gait.
Majestically; loftily.
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Stately Quotations
And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
Samuel Johnson
There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.
William Jennings Bryan
Monsieur Puss came at last to a stately castle, the master of which was an Ogre, the richest ever known; for all the lands which the King had then passed through belonged to this castle.
Charles Perrault
I did not find Liverpool ugly. Her stately public buildings, broad streets, public squares, and noble statues redeem her from the charge.
M. E. W. Sherwood
Build thee more stately mansions.
Amy Marcy Beach
Stately Translations
stately in French is bel
stately in German is stattlich
stately in Italian is prestante
stately in Spanish is estatal
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