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Lordly

//ˈlɔː(ɹ)dli// adj, adv

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to a lord.

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

  2. 2
    Alternative form of lordly. alt-of, alternative
  3. 3
    Having the qualities of a lord; lordlike; noble

    "Deep, indeed, / Their debt of thanks to her who first had dared / To leap the rotten pales of prejudice, / Disyoke their necks from custom, and assert / None lordlier than themselves but that which made / Woman and man."

  4. 4
    Appropriate for, or suitable to, a lord; glorious.

    "He asked water, and she gaue him milke, shee brought forth butter in a lordly dish."

  5. 5
    Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.

    "Lords are Lordlieſt in thir wine; […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or befitting a lord wordnet
  2. 2
    having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy wordnet
Adverb
  1. 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, page 56, […] / And Herod's painted pinnaces, ablaze / With lamps, and brazen shields and spangled slaves, / Came and went lordly at Tiberias; / […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English lordly, lordlich, from Old English hlāfordlīċ (“lordly; heroic; noble”), equivalent to lord + -ly. The adverb is from Middle English lordly, lordely, lordliche.

Etymology 2

From Middle English lordly, lordlich, from Old English hlāfordlīċ (“lordly; heroic; noble”), equivalent to lord + -ly. The adverb is from Middle English lordly, lordely, lordliche.

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