Crossword clues for lordliness
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lordliness \Lord"li*ness\, n. [From Lordly.]
The state or quality of being lordly.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. The property of being lordly; the bearing or manner of a lord.
WordNet
n. formality in bearing and appearance; "he behaved with great dignity" [syn: dignity, gravitas]
overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors [syn: arrogance, haughtiness, hauteur, highhandedness]
Usage examples of "lordliness".
With the innate lordliness of a brother he already put it down to jealousy.
She had a visitor with her already when I called, a fortyish substantial-looking man introduced coquettishly as Paul, who behaved with unmistakable lordliness, the master in his domain.
For Jolly, who had a sort of natural lordliness, had passed at once into a very small set, who secretly amused his father.
He was the only son of a late professor of chemistry, but people found a certain lordliness in one who was often so sublimely unconscious of them.
She missed the aristocratic twang in his voice, and the hesitation for words, and the fluid lordliness with which he rolled over difficulties in speech.
Gisela knew her shrillness of tone could be deemed rode and somewhat ungracious for such an offer but she was so incensed by his lordliness that she could not prevent herself from blurting it out.
No doubt my voice contained more lordliness than appeared warranted by my situation.
McBride was incensed by the lordliness of the response, angry that the man was determined to retain secrets to which McBride felt he had some admissible rights of acquisition.
From such expeditions Skullion would emerge with a temporary lordliness as if touched by grace and would recall such services rendered in years to come with the feeling that he had been privileged to attend an almost spiritual occasion.
The transwarp hub, in all its gargantuan lordliness, began to collapse on itself as if dragged into a huge gravity well.
This sort of worshipper will look for that which best embodies the loveliness of the stars and the worlds and the forests and the seas and the sunsets, and which best acts out the blandness, lordliness, accuracy, self-sufficiency, cruelty, independence, and contemptuous and capricious impersonality of the all governing Nature.
Yet there was something in her face that was alien to those practical, earthy people: a hint of other lordliness in the wide-spaced gray eyes and sharply cut features.
He was a wide-shouldered, deep-voiced man much given to wearing elaborately brocaded robes of rich colors suitable as complements to his remarkable shock of thick white hair: his eyes were warm and shrewd, his features somewhat small and pinched in relation to the grandeur of that hair, and his manner was one of lordliness bordering on the extremes of self-admiration.