[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