lordly adj

1 of or befitting a lord; "heir to a lordly fortune"; "of august lineage" [syn: august, grand]

2 having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "shaggy supercilious camels"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer [syn: disdainful, haughty, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering] [also: lordliest, lordlier]

English

Adjective

1. Appropriate for, or suitable to, a lord.

   Show us your lordly might, demonstrate that you can order people and get them to obey.

Quotations

• 1849 — Charlotte Brontë, Shirley, chapter 27

  It had also its Hall, called the Priory - an older, a larger, a more lordly abode than any Briarfield or Whinbury owned;

• 1897 — Bram Stoker, Dracula, chapter 27

  There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest.

Adverb

1. In the manner of a lord. Showing command or nobility.
   • 1891, Sir Edwin Arnold, The Light of the World: Or, The Great Consummation,] Book I — “Mary Magdalene”, Funk & Wagnalls, [http://books.google.com/books?id=3igAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA56&dq=lordly page 56,

     / And Herod's painted pinnaces, ablaze / With lamps, and brazen shields and spangled slaves, / Came and went lordly at Tiberias; /

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