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Lordly vs Imperative - What's the difference?

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Lordly is a related term of imperative.


As adjectives the difference between lordly and imperative

is that lordly is (obsolete) of or relating to a lord while imperative is .

As an adverb lordly

is in the manner of a lord showing command or nobility.

lordly

English

Adjective

  • (obsolete) of or relating to a lord.
    • Show us your lordly might: demonstrate that you can order people and get them to obey.
  • Appropriate for, or suitable to, a lord; glorious.
  • * Bible, Judges v. 25
    • She brought forth butter in a lordly dish.
  • * Tennyson
    • The maidens gathered strength and grace / And presence, lordlier than before.
  • * 1849 — , chapter 27
    • It had also its Hall, called the Priory - an older, a larger, a more lordly abode than any Briarfield or Whinbury owned;
  • * 1897 — , chapter 27
    • There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest.
  • Proud; haughty; imperious; insolent.
  • * Milton
    • Lords are lordliest in their wine.

    Adverb

    (er)
  • In the manner of a lord. Showing command or nobility.
  • * 1891 , , The Light of the World: Or, The Great Consummation , ] Book I — “Mary Magdalene”, Funk & Wagnalls, [http://books.google.com/books?id=3igAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA56&dq=lordly page 56,
  • * {{quote-book, 1925, Claude Kean, Stock Charges Against the Bible, year_published=2003 citation
    • , 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.}}

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    imperative

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • essential
    • It is imperative that you come here right now.
  • (computing theory) Having a semantics that incorporates mutable variables.
  • (grammar) of, or relating to the imperative mood
  • Expressing a command; authoritatively or absolutely directive.
    • imperative orders
  • * Bishop Hall
    • The suits of kings are imperative .

    Noun

  • (uncountable, grammar) The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare infinitive.
    • The verbs in sentences like "Do it!" and "Say what you like!" are in the imperative .
  • (countable, grammar) A verb in imperative mood.
  • (countable) An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.
    • Visiting Berlin is an imperative .
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    • Synonyms

    * (grammatical mood) imperative mood

    Derived terms

    * first imperative (Latin grammar) * second imperative (Latin grammar) * categorical imperative

    Coordinate terms

    * (in grammar) assertoric, interrogative