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regally en · ADV

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Etymology

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

Meanings

1. In a regal manner, in the way of, or befitting, royalty.
   • 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. 1993, James A. Michener, Alaska:
   • Mrs. Mountstuart seated herself regally "Ah, Mr. Dale!" she said, inclining to him. "Yes, dear Lady Busshe, there is a particle." 1879, George Meredith, The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], →OCLC:
   • […]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. 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:
   • 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 1998 January 12, “It's All About Timing”, in TIME:
   • Purple emperors are an exquisite morass of contradictions: disdainful of human company yet undisturbed by it; regally garbed yet partial to faecal feasts. 2016, James Lowen, A Summer of British Wildlife, page 120:
   • Under the bare electric bulbs the horizontal purple and gold bands, the colours of the Seaboard Railroad, glowed regally on the streamlined locomotives. 1954, Ian Fleming, “The Silver Phantom”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 95:
   • 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. 1908 June, L[ucy] M[aud] Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, Boston, Mass.: L[ouis] C[oues] Page & Company, →OCLC:

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Synonyms

princely (in a regal manner) · royally (in a regal manner) · grandly (in a regal manner)