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  1. n. The quality of being regal.

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  • “Some financiers were trying to convince me to make her 25," Ms. Nadda said, adding that she cast Ms. Clarkson because "Patty has this kind of vulnerability and a regalness about her that I just loved.”

    The Wall Street Journal: Clarkson Finds Her Star Turn in 'Time'

  • “No question at all of harming it; only admiration for its sleek and fearless regalness.”

    Archive 2008-12-01

  • “He's gorgeous, he's charismatic and he's got a regalness to him even as a hit man," says Lawrence Bender, the film's producer.”

    Newsweek: No More Mr. Tough Guy

  • “Ghlaghghee does in fact have a bit of a princess personality, so the fact a new cat has suctioned attention away from her regalness irks Her Fluffy Self to no end.”

    Cattitude « Whatever

  • “In the darkness through which he could see, Nylan studied her profile, chiseled against the darkness like that of a silver coin against black velvet, a profile almost of the Sybran girl-next-door, lacking the regalness that appeared whenever she was awake.”

    Fall of Angels

  • “Liz" had been known, in a shortage of nurses, to be called into the mysterious room down the hall to assist; and on those occasions, in an all-enveloping white gown over her wrapper, with her hair under a cap, she outranked the queen herself in regalness and authority.”

    Love Stories

  • “Rodiya girls wander the country as dancers and jugglers, and their erect figures, elastic step, and regalness of carriage, would be envied by the proudest woman promenading Vanity Fair; some of them have faces so perfect in a classic way that a sculptor or painter might make himself famous by reproducing them.”

    East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan

  • “Think of Mamie Eisenhower's exuberant pink frocks in the can-do post-War '50s; Rosalynnn Carter's recycled gown in the down-in-the-dumps' 70s, Jackie Kennedy regalness in the everything-is-possible '60s.”

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  • “Instead, during his passion, he took upon himself a singular regalness before Pilate, who asked him: "Are you a king?" and Jesus replied: "You say I am a king" (Jn 18: 37); but shortly before this he declared: "my kingdom is not one of this world" (Jn 18: 36).”

    Whispers in the Loggia

  • “It encompasses his particular blend of regalness and mind-bending cuteness.”

    CraftyPod

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‘regalness’ has been looked up 39 times, and has a Scrabble score of 10.