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LORDLY
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Irregular inflected forms: lordlier , lordliest
I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or befitting a lord
Example:
of august lineage
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
noble (of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times)
Derivation:
Lord (a titled peer of the realm)
lordliness (formality in bearing and appearance)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy
Example:
a more swaggering mood than usual
Synonyms:
disdainful; haughty; imperious; lordly; overbearing; prideful; sniffy; supercilious; swaggering
Classified under:
Similar:
proud (feeling self-respect or pleasure in something by which you measure your self-worth; or being a reason for pride)
Derivation:
lordliness (overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors)
Context examples:
He had entitled the story Adventure, and it was the apotheosis of adventure—not of the adventure of the storybooks, but of real adventure, the savage taskmaster, awful of punishment and awful of reward, faithless and whimsical, demanding terrible patience and heartbreaking days and nights of toil, offering the blazing sunlight glory or dark death at the end of thirst and famine or of the long drag and monstrous delirium of rotting fever, through blood and sweat and stinging insects leading up by long chains of petty and ignoble contacts to royal culminations and lordly achievements.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
