[f. KINGLY a. + -NESS.] Kingly quality or character.
1548. Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Mark iii. 28. Shewed no poynte of Kingliness.
a. 1618. Raleigh, Apol., 71. To that grace, and goodnesse, and Kinglynesse I referre my self.
1843. Lytton, Last Bar., II. ii. Warwick, thou deemest ill of thy king’s kingliness.
1876. Freeman, Norm. Conq., V. xxiv. 388. The kingliness was in the whole kin; one son of Woden was as kingly as another.
