Noun : a king of actors. From Dictionary.com.
As the village guest, I was treated with grand hospitality and kinglike esteem. From Wordnik.com. [Remember To Live! a Cautionary Essay by Michael Pastore] Reference
“With the balls of his father,” Fergie said ultimately, reasserting himself with a kinglike nod. From Wordnik.com. [The Town] Reference
“She speaks ever kinglike, and kinglike will I answer her, so she bring no request unworthy herself or me.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Talisman] Reference
Hakim, thou hast chosen thy boon; and though I had rather thou hadst asked my crown jewels, yet I may not, kinglike, refuse thee. From Wordnik.com. [The Talisman] Reference
He who had thought to rule without the sacrifice, who had never felt the god's breath that lifts a man beyond himself, had nothing to take him kinglike to the dark house of Hades. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
His waist grew to more than 45 inches, later in his life, and so he developed these sleeves padded with sawdust so as to broaden his shoulders and distract from his waistline, so he could go on looking massive and kinglike. From Wordnik.com. [A Bit of Fluff: Late Baroque Fashions] Reference
But does your gracious Queen entreat you kinglike?. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Mary and Harold] Reference
Who, king or not, hath kinglike fought and fallen. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Mary and Harold] Reference
But kinglike fought the proud archbishop, -- kinglike. From Wordnik.com. [Becket and other plays] Reference
They are monarchical and kinglike in their characteristics. From Wordnik.com. [A Fool's Errand. By One of the Fools] Reference
He was dead, as they would all soon be, and the couch was purple and kinglike. From Wordnik.com. [The Lion's Brood] Reference
Why did he want kinglike powers which any fool had to know were unconstitutional?. From Wordnik.com. Reference
'I had thought that there had been men who were kinglike,' he answered, 'but it may be as thou sayest. From Wordnik.com. [A House of Pomegranates] Reference
It was certain that he did the great English king, Athelstane, who had fostered him, credit, for he was in all ways most kinglike even now. From Wordnik.com. [A Sea Queen's Sailing] Reference
I do not wish to build on to my experience, and I do not want it marred by finding Jasper less commanding and kinglike than he was on that spring time Sabbath that afternoon of '78. From Wordnik.com. [John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher] Reference
Vang Pao, a charismatic Laotian general who commanded a secret army of his mountain people in a long, losing campaign against Communist insurgents, then achieved almost kinglike status as their leader-in-exile in the United States, died Thursday in Clovis, Calif. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
And when Etain of the Fair Hair came to the bed where Osgar was lying, and saw the way he was, and that the great kinglike shape he had was gone from him, greyness and darkness came on her, and she raised pitiful cries, and she went to her bed and her heart broke in her like a nut; and she died of grief for her husband and her first love. From Wordnik.com. [Gods and Fighting Men] Reference
Since, in common life, the nobleman is hampered by no limits: since kings, or kinglike figures do not differ from him, he can everywhere advance with a silent consciousness, as if before his equals, everywhere he is entitled to press forward; whereas nothing more beseems the burgher than the quiet feeling of the limits that are drawn round him. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter III. Book V] Reference
Two of them were thin, with eager, aesthetic countenances, while the third was kinglike and majestic, with a noble figure and flowing beard. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of Cloomber] Reference
And he wore a kinglike crown. From Wordnik.com. [THE FACE OF DICTATORSHIP] Reference
Against a knight of kinglike pride. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Balen] Reference
And oped the cell where kinglike death. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Song] Reference
Tomb thyself kinglike in the Pyramid. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Comedy] Reference
A kinglike presence: the monks stood nigh. From Wordnik.com. [The Legends of Saint Patrick] Reference
No less than kinglike, art no more in sooth. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Song] Reference
More kinglike he than like to prove a king. From Wordnik.com. [Queen Mary and Harold] Reference
Slew first the kinglike subject, then the king. From Wordnik.com. [A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI] Reference
A trump of kinglike mouth?”. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Balen] Reference
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