[f. QUEENLY a. + -NESS.] The condition or quality of being queenly.
1863. Geo. Eliot, Romola, I. 290. Casting around, as it were, an odour of queenliness.
1874. Green, Short Hist., vii. § 8. 446. If she [Elizabeth] once broke the silence, it was with a flash of her old queenliness.
1875. Browning, Inn Album, iv. The lady’s proud pale queenliness of scorn.
