MAJESTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does majesty mean? 

• MAJESTY (noun)
  The noun MAJESTY has 1 sense:

1. impressiveness in scale or proportion

  Familiarity information: MAJESTY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAJESTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Impressiveness in scale or proportion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

loftiness; majesty; stateliness

Hypernyms ("majesty" is a kind of...):

grandness; impressiveness; magnificence; richness (splendid or imposing in size or appearance)

Derivation:

majestic (having or displaying great dignity or nobility)

 Context examples 

I live but to obey, your majesty.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I have a brother, who is rich, and your majesty knows him well, and all the world knows him; but because I am poor, everybody forgets me.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I said, “His majesty should be satisfied; for I was ready to strip myself, and turn up my pockets before him.”

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

“I am the law of England and the mouthpiece of his most gracious and royal majesty, Edward the Third.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From the side where I now stood Montanvert was exactly opposite, at the distance of a league; and above it rose Mont Blanc, in awful majesty.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

If he liked the majestic, she was the very type of majesty: then she was accomplished, sprightly.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Having with difficulty restrained an explosion of merriment, lest it should offend her majesty, Laurie tapped and was graciously received.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Sometimes we saw him passing in lonely majesty to his inner sanctum, with his eyes staring vaguely and his mind hovering over the Balkans or the Persian Gulf.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My scimitar, pistols, and pouch, were conveyed in carriages to his majesty’s stores; but the rest of my goods were returned me.

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

He replied: “Lord King, your majesty must excuse me, I am a poor huntsman.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)