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STATELINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stateliness mean?
• STATELINESS (noun)
The noun STATELINESS has 2 senses:
1. an elaborate manner of doing something
2. impressiveness in scale or proportion
Familiarity information: STATELINESS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An elaborate manner of doing something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context example:
she served coffee with great stateliness
Hypernyms ("stateliness" is a kind of...):
formality; formalness (a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies)
Derivation:
stately (refined or imposing in manner or appearance; befitting a royal court)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Impressiveness in scale or proportion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
loftiness; majesty; stateliness
Hypernyms ("stateliness" is a kind of...):
grandness; impressiveness; magnificence; richness (splendid or imposing in size or appearance)
Derivation:
stately (impressive in appearance)
stately (of size and dignity suggestive of a statue)
Context examples
She had heard nothing of Lady Catherine that spoke her awful from any extraordinary talents or miraculous virtue, and the mere stateliness of money or rank she thought she could witness without trepidation.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
She knew I did; for the stateliness of her manner already abated towards me, except when she spoke in praise of him, and then her air was always lofty.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A more reassuring introduction for a new governess could scarcely be conceived; there was no grandeur to overwhelm, no stateliness to embarrass; and then, as I entered, the old lady got up and promptly and kindly came forward to meet me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It was Mrs. Steerforth, who gave me her hand more coldly than of yore, and with an augmentation of her former stateliness of manner, but still, I perceived—and I was touched by it—with an ineffaceable remembrance of my old love for her son.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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