Lordly

Adjective

1. (obsolete) of or relating to a lord.Show us your lordly might: demonstrate that you can order people and get them to obey.
2. Appropriate for, or suitable to, a lord.
• Bible, Judges v. 25She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
• TennysonThe maidens gathered strength and grace
  And presence, lordlier than before.
• 1849 — Charlotte Brontë, , chapter 27It had also its Hall, called the Priory - an older, a larger, a more lordly abode than any Briarfield or Whinbury owned;
• 1897 — Bram Stoker, , chapter 27There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest.
3. Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.
• MiltonLords are lordliest in their wine.

Full definition of lordly

Adverb

1. In the manner of a lord. Showing command or nobility.
• 1891, , 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;
  ...
• Look at man, then, walking lordly amidst the gigantic flora and fauna of long ago; and see if seven, eight, nine hundred years do not sit serenely on his mighty brow.

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