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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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"Royalty" Quotes from Famous Books

... the basest kind had rent his soul. Old friends were gone from him; new friends were but half-hearted. His hearthstone was desolate. The public, to whom he had given his best years, was becoming impatient of his infirmities. The royalty of his powers he saw by degrees torn from his decaying form. Other kings had arisen on the stage, to whom his old subjects now showed a reverence once all his own. The mockery of his diadem only remained. A wreck of the once proud man who had despised all weakness, and had ruled his kingdom ...

— Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 (of 8) • Various

... had curly hair, and a good deal of natural cuteness, and was, moreover, 'a divvle with the girls.' He contracted with me to take a selected list of female servants for an airing in the tandem-cart. He was to get a royalty of five dollars a head on every servant that was properly aired, with a ...

— 'Charge It' - Keeping Up With Harry • Irving Bacheller

... known as the Black Country. He had served in the steward's department on the ship of war where the Duke of Edinburgh, then Prince Alfred and a middy, was picking up seamanship. Hence his Jove-like hauteur. He had rubbed-skirts with Royalty, and to his fetter-shadowed soul some of the divinity which hedges kings and their relatives had adhered to him. I never met a darkey who could put on such fearful and wonderful airs. Where he did not order he condescended. He showed me an Irish constabulary revolver which ...

— Romantic Spain - A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) • John Augustus O'Shea

... with which our gracious Queen travels from the Isle of Wight to Aberdeenshire, or takes a trip across the Channel to see her uncle Leopold, makes us almost forget that such gorgeous state attended every step of royalty in the olden time. Glance we now a moment at the commercial aspect of Calais during the ...

— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 457 - Volume 18, New Series, October 2, 1852 • Various

... Shelikoff died, Rezanoff it was who obtained from the Czar in 1799 a charter for the Russian American Fur Company, giving it exclusive monopoly for hunting, trading, and exploring north of 55 degrees in the Pacific. Other companies were compelled either to withdraw or join. Royalty took shares in the venture. Shareholders of St. Petersburg were to direct affairs, and Baranof, the governor, resident in America, to have power of life and death, despotic as a czar. By 1800 the capital ...

— Vikings of the Pacific - The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward • Agnes C. Laut

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