What is "lordlier"

Lordly \Lord"ly\, a. [Compar. Lordlier; superl. Lordliest.]

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

   She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
   --Judges v. 25.

   Lordly sins require lordly estates to support them.
   --South.

   The maidens gathered strength and grace And presence, lordlier than before.
   --Tennyson.

2. Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.

   Lords are lordliest in their wine.
   --Milton.

   Syn: Imperious; haughty; overbearing; tyrannical; despotic; domineering; arrogant. See Imperious.

a. (en-comparative of: lordly) adv. (en-comparative of: lordly)

1. adj. of or befitting a lord; "heir to a lordly fortune"; "of august lineage" [syn: august, grand]

2. having or showing arrogant superiority to and disdain of those one views as unworthy; "some economists are disdainful of their colleagues in other social disciplines"; "haughty aristocrats"; "his lordly manners were offensive"; "walked with a prideful swagger"; "very sniffy about breaches of etiquette"; "his mother eyed my clothes with a supercilious air"; "shaggy supercilious camels"; "a more swaggering mood than usual"- W.L.Shirer [syn: disdainful, haughty, prideful, sniffy, supercilious, swaggering]

3. [also: lordliest, lordlier]

See lordly