emperorly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characteristic of an emperor; in the manner of an emperor.
Example Sentences
- "Mama Leone’s guests donned hemlock wreaths with their Roman attire. Don Sentell wore a toga with an emperorly air and entered singing love songs in very bad Italian."
- "If [Gundappa] Vishwanath’s flashing late-cuts had the dash of a crown prince, [Sunil] Gavaskar’s thundering drives were kingly, nay emperorly."
- "Amaranthe stammered a greeting. What’s the emperor doing down here? Shouldn’t he be somewhere safe, doing emperorly things? She ransacked her memory for the proper protocol and found...nothing. Emperors did not traditionally saunter through the waterfront shops."
Etymology
From emperor + -ly.
Inflected Forms
more emperorly (comparative)
most emperorly (superlative)