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Lordly vs Kingly - What's the difference?

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Lordly is a related term of kingly.


As adjectives the difference between lordly and kingly

is that lordly is (obsolete) of or relating to a lord while kingly is majestic and regal.

As adverbs the difference between lordly and kingly

is that lordly is in the manner of a lord showing command or nobility while kingly is in a royal manner.

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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    kingly

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) kyngly, from (etyl) *.

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Majestic and regal.
  • * Sir Philip Sidney
  • * kingly magnificence
  • * Jonathan Swift
    • a kingly government
  • * Shakespeare
    • the kingly couch
  • * G. Massey
    • The kingliest kings are crowned with thorn.
  • * Cowper
    • Leave kingly' backs to cope with ' kingly cares.
    Derived terms
    * kingliness

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) kyngly, from (etyl) *.

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a royal manner.