Hypertext Webster Gateway: "lordly"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lordly \Lord"ly\, a. [Compar. {Lordlier}; superl. {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.
Lords are lordliest in their wine. --Milton.
Syn: Imperious; haughty; overbearing; tyrannical; despotic;
domineering; arrogant. See {Imperious}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lordly \Lord"ly\, adv.
In a lordly manner.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}]
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