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lordliness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun lordliness has 2 senses
- lordliness(n = noun.attribute) dignity, gravitas - formality in bearing and appearance; "he behaved with great dignity" is a kind of bearing, comportment, mien, presence
- lordliness(n = noun.attribute) arrogance, haughtiness, hauteur, high-handedness - overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors; Array is a kind of pride, superbia
Derived form adjective lordly1
has particulars: condescension, disdainfulness, superciliousness, contemptuousness, hubris, domineeringness, imperiousness, overbearingness, superiority, snobbery, snobbishness, snobbism
Derived form adjective lordly2
CIDE DICTIONARY
lordliness, n. [From Lordly.].
The state or quality of being lordly. Shak. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
lordliness
arbitrariness, augustness, authoritarianism, authoritativeness, autocraticalness, bossism, courtliness, dignifiedness, dignity, domineering, domineeringness, elitism, grandeur, gravity, high-and-mightiness, imperativeness, imperiousness, kingliness, loftiness, magisterialness, magistrality, majesty, masterfulness, nobility, overbearance, overbearing, overbearingness, peremptoriness, pride of bearing, pride of place, princeliness, proud bearing, regality, sedateness, sobriety, solemnity, stateliness, tyrannicalness, venerability, worthiness
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