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A man's goal in his quest is a kingliness, a regal self-possession.

From Time Magazine Archive

From this community of feeling comes a kingliness of character; and he who is king-like goes on to be heaven-like.

From The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics by Legge, James

Something there was of true kingliness in his aspect.

From A Heroine of France by Everett-Green, Evelyn

The kingliness that he had never known how to wear becomingly now fell from him utterly.

From The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series by Sabatini, Rafael

But Easterns would look upon this as a proof of his "kingliness."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir