reginally

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English

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Etymology

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From reginal +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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reginally (comparative more reginally, superlative most reginally)

  1. (rare) In a reginal manner.
    Synonyms: queenlily, queenly
    • 1899 March 18, Max [i.e., Maximilian Beerbohm], “Comparisons”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art, volume LXXXVII, number 2,264, London: [] [T]he Office, [], page 332, column 1:
      She strode across the stage, bearing herself reginally.
    • 2002, Tom Bullough, “q: what makes a gander meander in search of a goose?”, in A, London: Sort Of Books, published 2012, →ISBN:
      – Angus! she said reginally. Make love to me! Come on! You know you have to. Here, on the ground!
    • 2003, Rohini Hensman, “Sarath”, in Lines, volume 2, Colombo: Social Scientists’ Association, →ISSN, page 65:
      Instead, what I detect of a still-contested ‘commonsense’ view of the world, from the working-class Burgher branch of my family, is that a class of VOC Burghers, who were privileged under the whites – yes, along with the post-1848 born-again feudals and traders – hollered when Black people here tried to take over, and in exchange for entombment by the arctic and the antarctic, yet bashfully put up and shut up about ill-concealed white-supremacy in Australia or Canada, both of which remain colonies even today, reginally ruled by an inbred constipated genetically modified Hun (yes, that was once our very own Hanoverian Hussy Queen Beti!).