LORD'LY, a. lord and like.
1. Becoming a lord pertaining to a lord.
Lordly sins require lordly estates to support them.
2. Proud haughty imperious insolent.
Every rich and lordly swain, with pride would drag about her chain.
LORD'LY, adv. Proudly imperiously despotically.
A famished lion, issuing from the wood, roars lordly fierce.
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