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Lordly vs Venerable - What's the difference?

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Lordly is a related term of venerable.


As adjectives the difference between lordly and venerable

is that lordly is (obsolete) of or relating to a lord while venerable is used as a form of address for an archdeacon in the anglican church.

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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    venerable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Commanding respect because of age, dignity, character or position.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Dotcom mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations.}}
  • Worthy of reverence.
  • Ancient, antiquated or archaic.
  • Made sacred especially by religious or historical association.
  • Giving an impression of aged goodness and benevolence.