What is another word for aristocratically?

Pronunciation: [ˌaɹɪstəkɹˈatɪkli] (IPA)

Aristocratically is an adjective that describes someone or something that resembles or embodies aristocracy, a ruling class of people who hold inherited titles. A few synonyms for aristocratically include regally, royally, nobly, elegantly, and dignifiedly. Regally refers to the bearing of a monarch or a person of high rank, while royally suggests a manner befitting a king or queen. Nobly and elegantly both imply grace, refinement, and aristocratic bearing. Dignifiedly suggests a self-assured and stately composure, which is expected of someone in a position of power or authority. These synonyms can be used interchangeably to describe someone who exhibits aristocratic qualities.

What are the hypernyms for Aristocratically?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Aristocratically

"There's a skunk hereabouts," said Union Mills, who was supposed to be gifted with aristocratically sensitive nostrils, "within ten miles of this place; like as not crossing the Ridge.
"On the Frontier"
Bret Harte
I don't know whether it was the missionary or the plenipotentiary that brought my cousin to her oats, but rather think it was the latter-having a foreign twang to it, of course, it impressed her aristocratically.
"Phemie Frost's Experiences"
Ann S. Stephens
Tell me, my dear mother, is not this beautiful reception-room very aristocratically and appropriately fitted up?
"Old Fritz and the New Era"
Louise Muhlbach

Famous quotes with Aristocratically

  • Since the eighteenth century, enlighteners have concerned themselves—as defenders of “true morality,” whatever that may be—with the morality of those who rule. … The moralism in the bourgeois sense of decency put aristocratically refined immoralism into the position of the politically accused. … But bourgeois thinking all too naively assumes it is possible to subordinate political power to moral concepts. It does not anticipate that one day, when it has itself come to power, it will end up in the same ambivalence. It has not yet realized that it is only a small step from taking moral offense to respectable hypocrisy.
    Peter Sloterdijk
  • The courtly person (cortegiano, gentilhomme, gentleman, Hofmann) has gone through a training in self-esteem that expresses itself in many ways: in aristocratically pretentious opinions, in polished or majestic manners, in gallant or heroic patterns of feeling as well as in a selective, aesthetic sensitivity for that which is said to be courtly or pretty. The noble, far removed from any self-doubt, should achieve all this with a complete matter-of-factness. Any uncertainty, any doubt in these things signifies a slackening in the nobility’s cultural “identity.” This class narcissism, which has petrified into a form of life, tolerates no irony, no exception, no slips, because such disturbances would give rise to unwelcome reflections. The French nobles did not turn up their noses at Shakespeare’s “barbarism” without reason. In his plays one already “smells” the human ordinariness of those who want to stand before society as the best. With the ascendancy of the bourgeoisie, the place of the “best” is awarded anew. The bourgeois ego, in an unprecedented, creative storming to the heights of a new class consciousness won for itself an autonomous narcissism.
    Peter Sloterdijk

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