regality

English

Etymology

From Middle English regalite, from Old French, from Late Latin rēgālitās, from Latin rēgālis (“regal, royal”), equivalent to regal +‎ -ity. Doublet of royalty.

Noun

regality (countable and uncountable, plural regalities)

1. Royalty; sovereignty; sovereign jurisdiction.
   • 1993, Miklós Boskovits, The Origins of Florentine Painting, 1100-1270, volume 1, page 33:

     Whereas the accentuated linearism, the angular stylization of the folds, the rhythmical course of the outlining and the solemn frontality conjoined with an air of regality in the pose seem to recall the formal repertory of the Corbolinus Master and his group […]

Derived terms

• burgh of regality

References

• “regality”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.