KINGLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does kingly mean? 

• KINGLY (adjective)
  The adjective KINGLY has 1 sense:

1. having the rank of or resembling or befitting a king

  Familiarity information: KINGLY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KINGLY (adjective)

Comparative: kinglier   
Superlative: kingliest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the rank of or resembling or befitting a king

Synonyms:

kinglike; kingly

Context example:

the murder of his kingly guest

Similar:

noble (of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times)

Derivation:

king (a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom)

 Context examples 

Your kingly pledge is my security, without bond or seal.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This pale crescent was "the likeness of a kingly crown;" what it diademed was "the shape which shape had none."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It is a very kingly, honourable, and frequent practice, when one prince desires the assistance of another, to secure him against an invasion, that the assistant, when he has driven out the invader, should seize on the dominions himself, and kill, imprison, or banish, the prince he came to relieve.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)