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Definition of Lordliness
1. Noun. Formality in bearing and appearance. "He behaved with great dignity"
Generic synonyms: Bearing, Comportment, Mien, Presence
Derivative terms: Lordly
2. Noun. Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors.
Generic synonyms: Pride, Superbia
Specialized synonyms: Condescension, Disdainfulness, Superciliousness, Contemptuousness, Hubris, Domineeringness, Imperiousness, Overbearingness, Superiority, Snobbery, Snobbishness, Snobbism
Derivative terms: Arrogant, Haughty, High-handed, Lordly
Definition of Lordliness
1. n. The state or quality of being lordly.
Definition of Lordliness
1. Noun. The property of being lordly; the bearing or manner of a lord. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lordliness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Lordliness
Literary usage of Lordliness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Christian Socialism: A Conversational Exposition of the True by Adin Ballou (1854)
"... association—3d point, its human assumption and expediency—4th point, its
inadequate guaranties— 5th point, its governmental lordliness, ostentation and ..."
2. The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, and Other by William Evans, Thomas Evans (1847)
"... or lordliness over one another; for this is not might dwell in you also, and
enable you as j of the Father, but tends to destroy and con- well as us, ..."
3. Rigveda Brahmanas: The Aitareya and Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇas of the Rigveda by Arthur Berriedale Keith (1920)
"... the Gayatri is the holy power; Soma is the lordly power ; (thus it serves)
for the winning of the glory of holiness and the glory of lordliness. ..."
4. Travels in the Slavonic Provinces of Turkey-in-Europe by Georgina Muir Mackenzie, Adelina Paulina Irby (1877)
"... them from the popular * eye, and centuries of foreign rule have not reduced
their people to borrow a term for " lordliness "from the conqueror's tongue. ..."
5. Mankind in the Making by Herbert George Wells (1904)
"All the assumptions of an essential lordliness remain—and none of the duties.
... That lordliness is so ample that for even a small family the income I have ..."
6. The Works of John Jewel by John Jewel, John Ayre (1848)
"council of Africa of pride and lordliness, M. Harding thinketh I understand .
... I doubt whether there were ever such pride and lordliness in any prince ..."
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