adv. Now rare. [f. STATELY a. + -LY2.] In a stately manner.

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1611.  Cotgr., Sublimement, loftily, highly, haughtily, statelily.

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1672.  Eachard, Hobbes’ State Nat., 18. It sounds, I must confess, somewhat statelily.

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1796.  Mod. Gulliver, 16 b. Walking in statelily himself, he beckoned me to follow.

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1859.  Tennyson, Marr. Geraint, 175. She, Sweetly and statelily, and with all grace Of womanhood and queenhood, answer’d him.

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1903.  Kipling, in Windsor Mag., Sept., 370/1. The Head Chief bowed solemnly and statelily before Taffy.

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