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lordliness|ˈlɔːdlɪnɪs|
[f. lordly a. + -ness.]
†1. The condition or state of a lord. Obs.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 384 Clerkis & religious folke that louen unkyndely þes lordlynes willen glose here & say þat [etc.]. c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 42 Techinge falland to lordlynes of lordes. 1549Cheke Hurt Sedit. (1641) 10 By ambition yee seek Lordlinesse, much unfit for you. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. I. 150/1 To ferret out concealed lands for the supporte of their owne priuat lordlines. 1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. v. ii. 161 Doing the Honour of thy Lordlinesse To one so meeke. 1641‘Smectymnuus’ Answ. xviii. (1653) 77 Men would be adding to Gods institution, what..Lordlinesse their phansie suggested unto them. 1669Woodhead St. Teresa i. xxxiii. 236 The Lords, we are wont to meet within this world,..place all their Lordliness in some acted Authorities.
2. The disposition proper to a lord; dignity, grandeur. Frequent in bad sense: Arrogance, haughtiness, imperiousness.
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Titus 28 He must overcome more by..gentylnes, than by lordelynes. a1585Cartwright in R. Browne Answ. Cartwright 93 Pharisaicall pride and Lordlinesse in teaching. 1618Bolton Florus i. viii. (1636) 21 The intolerable Lordlinesse of Superbus did some good. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals i. i. 14 From hence it is the Grandeur and Lordlyness of the Cardinals does spring. 1723Dk. Wharton True Briton No. 42 II. 365 The Arbitrary Temper and Lordliness of Calvin. 1741Richardson Pamela (1824) I. 117 See the lordliness of a high condition! 1883J. Parker Tyne Chylde 200 There are instincts of lordliness in man which are to be accounted for. 1884Church Bacon ix. 225 The Latin in which [the Novum Organum] is written..has..the lordliness of a great piece of philosophical legislation. |