What does the word stately mean?
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Stateliness.
Part of speech: noun
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Usage examples for stately
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All these retired in turn when they asked to have a fire lighted in the stove, without which Mrs. March would never have taken the fine stately rooms, and sent back a pretty young girl to do it. – Their Silver Wedding Journey by William Dean Howells
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The professor himself was deeply grieved, and no less so his stately little lady, for to both of them Dick was as a son. – The Doctor A Tale Of The Rockies by Ralph Connor
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It was a special thing for this sister who had been a stately young lady of twenty when he was a bad little boy of ten. – Mary Wollaston by Henry Kitchell Webster