Kingly state

Usage examples of regality.

Though he wore no trappings of royalty, there was a new regality in his very visage and posture.

For this reason the same authority is at a loss to know whether the prisoners were immediately put to the knowledge of an assize, being taken ``red-hand,'' without the formality of being served a ``dittay'' (as who should say an indictment), as in ordinary cases, before the magistrates of Edinburgh, or else sent for trial before the baron bailie of the regality of Broughton, in whose jurisdiction Warriston was situated.

Her foot was a little in the way because her house slipper kept twirling about her big toe, so she pulled it in and sat up with an unnatural straightness to her neck that she felt sure, somehow, lengthened it a full two inches into slim regality.

There were legalities and regalities, and he’d always found the latter took precedence.

The total effect is of old-fashioned diplomatic finery harmoniously wedded to a zoot suit: the raffishness of the ensemble outweighs its formality, but the dignity of the swallowtail and the waistcoat contribute to the whole a regal quality of a specific kind, the regality often seen in African American entertainers and musicians.