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Webster 1913 Edition

Lordly

Lord′ly

,
Adj.
[
Com
par.
Lordlier
;
sup
erl.
Lordliest
.]
[
Lord
+
-ly
. Cf.
Lordlike
.]
1.
Suitable for a lord; of or pertaining to a lord; resembling a lord; hence, grand; noble; dignified; honorable.
She brought forth butter in a
lordly
dish.
Judges v. 25.
Lordly
sins require
lordly
estates to support them.
South.
The maidens gathered strength and grace
And presence,
lordlier
than before.
Tennyson.
2.
Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.
Syn. – Imperious; haughty; overbearing; tyrannical; despotic; domineering; arrogant. See
Imperious
.

Lord′ly

,
adv.
In a lordly manner.

Webster 1828 Edition

Lordly

LORD'LY

,
Adj.
[lord and like.]
1.
Becoming a lord; pertaining to a lord.
Lordly sins require lordly estates to support them.
2.
Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.
Every rich and lordly swain, with pride would drag about her chain.

LORD'LY

,
adv.
Proudly; imperiously; despotically.
A famished lion, issuing from the wood, roars lordly fierce.

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