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noun

Royalty n. (pl. royalties)

1.

The state of being royal; the condition or quality of a royal person; kingship; kingly office; sovereignty. "Royalty by birth was the sweetest way of majesty."

2.

The person of a king or sovereign; majesty; as, in the presence of royalty. "For thus his royalty doth speak."

3.

An emblem of royalty; usually in the plural, meaning regalia. (Obs.) "Wherefore do I assume These royalties, and not refuse to reign?"

4.

Kingliness; spirit of regal authority. "In his royalty of nature Reigns that which would be fear'd."

5.

Domain; province; sphere.

6.

That which is due to a sovereign, as a seigniorage on gold and silver coined at the mint, metals taken from mines, etc.; the tax exacted in lieu of such share; imperiality.

7.

A share of the product or profit (as of a mine, forest, etc.), reserved by the owner for permitting another to use the property.

8.

Hence (Com.), a duty paid by a manufacturer to the owner of a patent or a copyright at a certain rate for each article manufactured; or, a percentage paid to the owner of an article by one who hires the use of it.

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Etymology of 'Royalty'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Royalty" Quotes from Famous Books

... allusions, is all modern, having been put in between sixty and seventy years ago. Those responsible for the replacing, after a long interval, of the glass that had been destroyed when all concerning royalty was out of favour, worked in monograms and devices in a way that misleads many visitors, some of whom seeing "H" and "J" in the glass, too rashly assume that it dates from the time when Jane Seymour was the much ...

— Hampton Court • Walter Jerrold

... watch his every expression and movement; but he entered with his people upon a new century in which one of the first and most prominent features is a decay in popular respect for Parliament and a revival of the old-time love for stately display, for ceremonial and for the appropriate trappings of royalty. With this evident and growing influence of the Crown as a social and popular factor is the knowledge which all statesmen and constitutional students now possess of the personal influence in diplomacy ...

— The Life of King Edward VII - with a sketch of the career of King George V • J. Castell Hopkins

... honorable distinction, was performed by each person for a pretty long period, in one case for three months, scarcely ever for more; and it was noticed that the privilege of "cutting the cake" carried with it a heap of other marks of superiority—a sort of royalty, or ...

— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. • Guy de Maupassant

... went to Cochin, a city of considerable size, where many Portuguese had established themselves. Here he was shortly afterwards seized with a mortal malady, of which he died a few minutes past midnight on the 24th of December, 1524, when he was succeeded in his vice-royalty by his son, ...

— Notable Voyagers - From Columbus to Nordenskiold • W.H.G. Kingston and Henry Frith

... himself in regal garments and adorned his person with certain regal ornaments, of which the collar now worn by you, Lord, was the most important next to the imperial borla, or tasselled fringe of scarlet, adorned with coraquenque feathers, which was the distinguishing insignia of royalty. ...

— Harry Escombe - A Tale of Adventure in Peru • Harry Collingwood

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