queenly

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English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkwiːnli/
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Etymology 1

From Middle English queenly, quenly, from Old English cwēnlīċ, equivalent to queen +‎ -ly.

Adjective

queenly (comparative queenlier, superlative queenliest)

  1. Having the status, rank or qualities of a queen; regal.
    • 1860, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], The Mill on the Floss , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
      So Maggie, glad of anything that would soothe her mother, and cheer their long day together, consented to the vain decoration, and showed a queenly head above her old frocks, steadily refusing, however, to look at herself in the glass.
    • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 13]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, , →OCLC:
      There was an innate refinement, a languid queenly hauteur about Gerty which was unmistakably evidenced in her delicate hands and higharched instep.
    • 2018, Queen True, “A Royal Stink”, in True and the Rainbow Kingdom:
      I'm so sorry. If I'd done my queenly duties right, none of this would have happened. But maybe I can fix it with some wish help.
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Etymology 2

From queen +‎ -ly.

Adverb

queenly (comparative queenlier, superlative queenliest)

  1. In a queenly manner; regally.
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