Literary notes about Regal (AI summary)
In literature, the term regal is employed to evoke a sense of majesty and authority, often linking characters or settings to the grandeur of royal power. Its usage spans from literal descriptions of monarchy—as when characters are directly associated with royal households and thrones ([1], [2], [3])—to metaphorical allusions where an individual's bearing or even a location is imbued with noble dignity ([4], [5], [6]). Authors also manipulate the term to underscore contrasts, such as the irony in “regal solitude” ([7]) or the transformation of a character’s demeanor into a symbol of unyielding majesty ([8], [9]). Whether referring to the physical symbols of sovereignty like scepters and domed palaces ([10], [11], [12]) or to an internal quality of noble spirit ([9], [13]), regal serves as a potent descriptor that enriches both historical narratives and poetic imagery across a diverse range of texts.
- Two years afterwards, Bagoas put Arses and all his children to death; thus leaving no direct heir of the regal family alive.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander by Arrian - Ay, that's the first thing that we have to do; To free King Henry from imprisonment, And see him seated in the regal throne.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - 872 Two Italian sovereigns assume a regal title from Sardinia and Sicily.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - And the regal impudence with which she seemed to dismiss them all, the others, parents and wedding guests, as she went with her young husband.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence - I am tall and regal, clad in a gown of trailing white lace, with a pearl cross on my breast and pearls in my hair.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery - He created the impression of a regal personality; his noble appearance hid his hesitations and fears.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl - If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick bed.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 by Charles Lamb and Mary Lamb - her neck regal white Turn'd—syllabling thus, "Ah, Lycius bright, And will you leave me on the hills alone? Lycius, look back! and be some pity shown.
— from Lamia by John Keats - Lofty above such influences, however, is his regal soul.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda - Then thou thy regal scepter shalt lay by, For regal scepter then no more shall need, God shall be all in all.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton - This is the palace of the fearful King, And this the regal seat.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare - I looked on the regal towers of Windsor.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Oh, the regal liberality with which he has lavished gifts upon things in order to impoverish himself and make himself feel wretched!
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Nietzsche
