regally

From Middle English regali; equivalent to regal +‎ -ly.

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regally (comparative more regally, superlative most regally)

1. In a regal manner, in the way of, or befitting, royalty.
   • 1879, George Meredith, The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], →OCLC:

     Mrs. Mountstuart seated herself regally "Ah, Mr. Dale!" she said, inclining to him. "Yes, dear Lady Busshe, there is a particle."

   • 1908 June, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, →OCLC:

     His wife is very pretty. Not exactly regally lovely, of course—it wouldn’t do, I suppose, for a minister to have a regally lovely wife, because it might set a bad example.

   • 1998 January 12, “It's All About Timing”, in TIME:

     But here was someone who could have been paid regally for just phoning it in for another year or two willing instead to throw that all away

   • 1993, James A. Michener, Alaska:

     In 1958, when the debate heatened, an elderly gentleman of excellent reputation stepped regally into a Senate hearing room in Washington prepared to testify against statehood for Alaska.

   • 2001, Gerri Hirshey, “Mothers of Invention”, in We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, →ISBN, page 35:

     […] she has remained successful and beloved for the last half century, collecting a Lifetime Award Grammy, an honorary doctorate from Harvard and the icon’s prerogative to appear—regally chinoed—in a Gap ad.

   • 2016, James Lowen, A Summer of British Wildlife‎^[1], page 120:

     Purple emperors are an exquisite morass of contradictions: disdainful of human company yet undisturbed by it; regally garbed yet partial to faecal feasts.

• (in a regal manner): grandly, princely, royally

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