Lordly vs Arrogant - What's the difference?
lordly | arrogant | Related terms |
(obsolete) of or relating to a lord.
Appropriate for, or suitable to, a lord; glorious.
* Bible, Judges v. 25
* Tennyson
* 1849 — , chapter 27
* 1897 — , chapter 27
Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.
* Milton
In the manner of a lord. Showing command or nobility.
* 1891 , , The Light of the World: Or, The Great Consummation ,
* {{quote-book, 1925, Claude Kean, Stock Charges Against the Bible, year_published=2003
, passage=Look at man, then, walking lordly amidst the gigantic flora and fauna of long ago; and see if seven, eight, nine hundred years do not sit serenely on his mighty brow.}}
Lordly is a related term of arrogant.
As adjectives the difference between lordly and arrogant
is that lordly is (obsolete) of or relating to a lord while arrogant is having excessive pride in oneself, often with contempt for others.As an adverb lordly
is in the manner of a lord showing command or nobility.lordly
English
Adjective
- Show us your lordly might: demonstrate that you can order people and get them to obey.
- She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
- The maidens gathered strength and grace / And presence, lordlier than before.
- It had also its Hall, called the Priory - an older, a larger, a more lordly abode than any Briarfield or Whinbury owned;
- There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest.
- Lords are lordliest in their wine.
Adverb
(er)]Book I — “Mary Magdalene”, Funk & Wagnalls, [http://books.google.com/books?id=3igAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA56&dq=lordly page 56,
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