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Definition of lordliness:
Synonyms:
dignity, insolence, overbearingness, self-regard, highhandedness, superiority, pride, self-respect, high-handedness, loftiness, superciliousness, self-worth, gravitas, hauteur, arrogance, pridefulness, presumption, proudness, attitude, haughtiness.
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nobility (part of speech: noun)
- greatness,
- knightliness,
- augustness,
- queenliness,
- regality,
- majesty,
- grandness,
- kingliness,
- stateliness,
- courtliness,
- heroicalness,
- nobility,
- sovereignty,
- distinction,
- princeliness,
- stature,
- dignity,
- aristocracy,
- imperialness
Usage examples:
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It had been started on foundations of good stone, with true French lordliness: but it parodied- or, rather, it satirised- the ambitious French tendency to impose architecture upon nature.
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There was an unconscious air of physical lordliness about him, and he looked such a swell- not the black- clothed, clean- shaved, great display of white collar- and- cuffs swell appertaining to the office and city street, but of the easy sunburnt squatter type of swelldom, redolent of the sun, the saddle, the wide open country- a man who is a man, utterly free from the least suspicion of effeminacy, and capable of earning his bread by the sweat of his brow- with an arm ready and willing to save in an accident.
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The greatness of the world is measured by authority and lordliness.