OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 36453

lordly

/ˈlɔː(ɹ)dli/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
noble
Of or relating to a lord.
But they are the peers of the Queensland Parliament, and, having no lordly robes, must approach the Old Country model as closely as possible.
Show us your lordly might: demonstrate that you can order people and get them to obey.
noble
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 themselv…
pomposo • presuntuoso
Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.