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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