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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. formality in bearing and appearance;
- Example: "he behaved with great dignity"
[syn: dignity, lordliness, gravitas]

2. overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors;
[syn: arrogance, haughtiness, hauteur, high-handedness, lordliness]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Lordliness \Lord"li*ness\, n. [From Lordly.] The state or quality of being lordly. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

lordliness n 1: formality in bearing and appearance; "he behaved with great dignity" [syn: dignity, lordliness, gravitas] 2: overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors [syn: arrogance, haughtiness, hauteur, high- handedness, lordliness]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

40 Moby Thesaurus words for "lordliness": arbitrariness, augustness, authoritarianism, authoritativeness, autocraticalness, bossism, courtliness, dignifiedness, dignity, domineering, domineeringness, elitism, grandeur, gravity, high-and-mightiness, imperativeness, imperiousness, kingliness, loftiness, magisterialness, magistrality, majesty, masterfulness, nobility, overbearance, overbearing, overbearingness, peremptoriness, pride of bearing, pride of place, princeliness, proud bearing, regality, sedateness, sobriety, solemnity, stateliness, tyrannicalness, venerability, worthiness