marked by the qualities of or befitting a statesman; " a man of statesmanlike judgment"; " a statesmanlike solution of the present perplexities"- V. L. Parrington

Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.

Like a statesman.

Having the qualities of a statesman or good statesmanship.

Having the qualities of a statesman.

In America it has always remained strictly within the political order, and perhaps with the considerable exception of the possibles share it may have had, along with Christian notions of the brotherhood of man, and statesmanlike notions of national prosperity, in leading to the abolition of slavery, it has brought forth no strong moral sentiment against the ethical and economic bases of any part of the social order. – Rousseau Volumes I. and II. by John Morley

His remarks on " Modern Dissent" showed how clear, how statesmanlike his judgment was. – Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley

But Viscount Memoir was very statesmanlike, and spouted a sort of universal history. – The Young Duke by Benjamin Disraeli

I say that is a clear, statesmanlike, and manly declaration of policy. – Selected-Speeches-on-British-Foreign-Policy-1738-1914 by Jones, Edgar R. (Edgar Rees), Sir

We now recognize Durham as the man of statesmanlike foresight and genius who converted, at a great crisis, a Canada burning with internal hatred between race and sect, and the one common hatred of Imperial rule, into the Canada which we now know as one of the most peaceful, prosperous, and loyal parts of the British Empire. – A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV (of 4) by Justin McCarthy and Justin Huntly McCarthy

Really statesmanlike things are done, inventions are made. – A Preface to Politics by Walter Lippmann

He was not a man of great statesmanlike ability, he was not a man of extensive or varied information, he was not a scholar, he was not an orator, he was not in the ordinary sense of the word a thinker, but he was a man who had, by a kind of philanthropic instinct, got hold of an idea which men of far greater intellect had not, up to his time, shown themselves able to grasp. – A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV (of 4) by Justin McCarthy and Justin Huntly McCarthy

A friend writes: his letters are admirable as showing his statesmanlike and humane view of things, and his courage and patience under exasperating conditions. – Native Races and the War by Josephine Elizabeth Butler

Yet the speech, like other speeches and intercessions made at this epoch by de Boississe and by the regular French ambassador, du Maurier, was statesmanlike and reasonable. – The Life of John of Barneveld, 1618 by John Lothrop Motley

His lordship was little conversant with the history of proverbs, and would unquestionably have smiled on those " men of fashion" of another stamp, who, in the days of Elizabeth, James, and Charles, were great collectors of them; would appeal to them in their conversations, and enforce them in their learned or their statesmanlike correspondence. – Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Isaac Disraeli

The principles and the interest of France, broadly conceived, make the existence of a powerful Union a statesmanlike European and world necessity. – Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 by Adam Gurowski

While I assumed a statesmanlike port, if only to gain a little time in which to cover my exposed position, my relation by marriage, with a daring which was certainly remarkable in one who is not by nature a thruster, took up the cudgels yet again. –  by

But once the necessity for a different attitude became apparent, the statesmanlike manner in which this was pressed must provoke admiration. – The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South by Broadus Mitchell

This at least would have been statesmanlike. – A History of Freedom of Thought by John Bagnell Bury

Here Pitt intervened with the statesmanlike remark: It will not save Europe. – William Pitt and the Great War by John Holland Rose

The Commissioners took three years to consider the subject submitted to them; and, at the end of that time, made a report which, in the light of subsequent events, must be pronounced a statesmanlike document. – The New Irish Constitution by J. H. Morgan

We should own they had never done the statesmanlike qualities of women justice. – Imaginary Interviews by W. D. Howells