0 formal, slow, and having a style and appearance that causes admiration:
1 formal in style and appearance:
This expansion slows down the pace, making it more earnest and allowing for subsequent accelerations without undoing the stately tone.
It abounds in fruits, and has good baths and stately palaces.
Copies in circulating libraries probably gained more readers than those in stately homes.
Then is she kind and cruel, stately and unassuming, various, beautifully wilful.
This dispute was not done in rapid fire, was not the sort of intellectual firestorm that now agitates the correspondence columns of literary reviews, but was enacted in stately leisure.
The result is a stately circulating movement of minuet-like character; whenever the creatures touch they become obstacles and withdraw but are attracted again in rhythmic fashion.
How far removed they are from the stately dignity of our highly intelligent badge messengers.
In other countries, setts are protected as we would protect our stately homes.