Lordly vs Royal - What's the difference?
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(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.}}
Of or relating to a monarch or their family.
*
Having the air or demeanour of a monarch.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
(nautical) In large sailing ships, of a mast right above the topgallant mast and its sails.
(boxing, military) Free-for-all, especially involving multiple combatants.
(informal) (Used as an intensifier).
A royal person; a member of a royal family.
(paper, printing) A standard size of printing paper, measuring 25 by 20 inches.
(dated) The Australian decimal currency intended to replace the pound in 1966; was changed to "dollar" before it was actually circulated.
The fourth tine of an antler's beam.
(nautical) In large sailing ships, square sail over the topgallant sail.
An old English gold coin, the rial.
(military) A small mortar.
Lordly is a related term of royal.
As adjectives the difference between lordly and royal
is that lordly is (obsolete) of or relating to a lord while royal is (used in terms of address or reference to members of a royal family).As an adverb lordly
is in the manner of a lord showing command or nobility.As a proper noun royal is
.As a noun royal is
(soccer) someone connected with , as a fan, player, coach etc.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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Anagrams
*royal
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Alternative forms
* roial (obsolete), roiall (obsolete), royall (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance.But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again her partner was haled off with a frightened look to the royal circle, […].
- How doth that royal merchant, good Antonio?
- royal''' mast; '''royal sail
- a royal pain in the neck