lordly

Speech parts

1. lordly - Adjective

2. lordly - Adverb

4. lordly - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Suitable for a lord; of or pertaining to a lord; resembling a lord; hence, grand; noble; dignified; honorable.

In a lordly manner.

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Examples

There is room in the halls of pleasure for a large and lordly train, but one by one we must all file on through the narrow aisles of pain. Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! Quoth the raven, `Nevermore. Edgar Allan Poe

Stately, kindly, lordly friend Condescend Here to sit by me. Algernon Charles Swinburne

There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA. Bram Stoker

Blaine remembered how strange, dark, atavistic and noble Hull's lordly selection of death has seemed. Pretentious, of course; but then, life itself was a pretension in the vast universe of unliving matter. Robert Sheckley

A lordly taste make a beggar's purse. German Proverb

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