lordlinessn.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 312 Lordlynesse, dominacio, herilitas.

?1534 L. Cox tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Epist. Paule vnto Titus i. f. xxviii He must ouercome more by..gentylnes, than by lordelynes.

c1585 T. Cartwright in R. Browne Answere to Cartwright 93 Pharisticall pride and Lordlinesse in teaching.

1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. i. viii. 21 The intolerable lordlinesse of Superbus did some good.

1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. i. 14 From hence it is the Grandeur and Lordlyness of the Cardinals does spring.

1723 Duke of Wharton True Briton No. 42. ¶8 The Arbitrary Temper and Lordliness of Calvin.

1783 J. Brockwell Pract. Expos. Lord's Prayer 23 Some men..for all their lordliness, can call God their Father with..truth and propriety.

1884 R. W. Church Bacon ix. 225 The Latin in which [the Novum Organum] is written..has..the lordliness of a great piece of philosophical legislation.

1920 S. Lewis Main St. vi. 71 He liked the lordliness of giving largess.

1974 T. Sharpe Porterhouse Blue vi. 56 From such expeditions Skullion would emerge with a temporary lordliness as if touched by grace.

2012 Guardian (Nexis) 19 Nov. 33 Fry has such natural lordliness and is so handsomely bearded that you feel he would be a catch for any Olivia.

?c1450 (?a1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 384 Clerkis & religious folke þat louen unkyndely þes lordlynes willen glose here & say þat [etc.].

a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 42 Techinge falland to lordlynes of lordes.

1549 J. Cheke Hurt of Sedicion sig. B1^v By ambytion ye seke lordlynes, much vnfit for you.

1587 R. Holinshed et al. Hist. Eng. (new ed.) vi. xvj. 150/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I To ferret out concealed lands for the supporte of their owne priuat lordlines.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) v. ii. 158 Doing the Honour of thy Lordlinesse To one so meeke. View more context for this quotation

1641 ‘Smectymnuus’ Answer Hvmble Remonstr. xviii. 87 Men would bee adding to Gods institution, what..Lordlynes their phansie suggested unto them.

1671 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa i. xxxiii. 236 The Lords, we are wont to meet within this world,..place all their Lordliness in some acted Authorities.

1712 E. Warren Antidote against Arianism x. 119 As this promis'd Dominion imply'd Power, so his [sc. God's] Power might be such as by virtue of that and his innate Lordliness, to keep the terriblest Creatures under.

1795 T. Spence End of Oppress. (ed. 2) 5 What means the inveterate War commenced by the Aristocracy of the World against France? They know that Mankind once enlightened will not brook their lordliness.

1849 J. A. Carlyle in tr. Dante Divine Comedy: Inferno 400/1 (note) The Count..was made Lord of the city amid great rejoicing and festivity. But his lordliness was of brief duration.