'kingly' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective meaning "befitting or characteristic of a king; regal." It is often used to describe something or someone as majestic, grand, or royal. Example: The castle stood tall and kingly on top of the hill, overlooking the vast kingdom below.
The suffix "-lijk e)", for example, is used like "-ly", so someone might be able to figure out that koninklijke in The Hague's Koninklijke Bibliotheek means "kingly", a word that was replaced in English with the French "royal".
Years of patient effort to sustain and fortify an anti-Iranian front may now be wasted, the Saudis fear.But the sharpest cause for kingly ire has been America's failure to punish President Bashar Assad and his regime in Syria for breaching Mr Obama's own much-touted "red line" against the use of chemical weapons.
It was at length decided that the kingly title should be taken from Prussia rather than from Brandenburg because the former country lay outside the empire, and in return Frederick promised to assist Leopold with 8,000 men.
In the Theban temple known as Hwt-Benben ("Mansion of the Benben Stone"; the benben was a cult object associated with solar ritual), Nefertiti played a more prominent role, usurping kingly privileges in order to serve as a priest and offer to the Aton.
Similarly, government flourishes when the kingly dao (wangdao) accords with nature's way.
This work contains much valuable information, and it reveals that Alfred laboured throughout under the burden of recurrent, painful illness; and beneath Asser's rhetoric can be seen a man of attractive character, full of compassion, able to inspire affection, and intensely conscious of the responsibilities of kingly office.
Like Mencius, Xunzi believed in the perfectibility of all human beings through self-cultivation, in humanity and rightness as cardinal virtues, in humane government as the kingly way, in social harmony, and in education.
Alexander Jannaeus (103 76 bc) was the first of the Maccabean priestly princes to style himself king on his coins, which bore his name and title in Greek as well as Hebrew, but Pompey's withdrawal of the kingly title was reflected in the coins of John Hyrcanus II.
The virtual collapse of the state under Bolesław's son Mieszko II, who was even obliged to renounce his kingly status, showed how much the political fortunes of a state were bound to the personality of its ruler.
The Norman Conquest and a period in which French was the language of the ruling class in England effected great changes on English and contributed a very substantial number of French words to English vocabulary hence the quantity of near synonymous pairs available today: begin, commence; end, finish; kingly, royal; fight, combat; and so on.
From 1477 to his death in 1513, the 8th earl of Kildare exercised almost kingly power in Ireland.
