Proud vs Lordly - What's the difference?
proud | lordly | Synonyms |
Gratified; feeling honoured (by something); feeling satisfied or happy about a fact or event.
Possessed of a due sense of what one is worth or deserves.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=6 (chiefly, Biblical) Having too high an opinion of oneself; arrogant, supercilious.
* 1611 , Proverbs 16:5, King James Version
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=(Hilaire Belloc), title=(Cautionary Tales for Children), section=Godolphin Horne Who was cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black
, passage=Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born; / He held the human race in scorn, / And lived with all his sisters where / His father lived, in Berkeley Square. / And oh! The lad was deathly proud ! / He never shook your hand or bowed, / But merely smirked and nodded thus: / How perfectly ridiculous! / Alas! That such Affected Tricks / Should flourish in a child of six!}}
Generating a sense of pride; being a cause for pride.
(obsolete) Brave, valiant; gallant.
Standing out or raised; swollen.
(obsolete) Excited by sexual desire; (of female animals) in heat.
Happy, usually used with a sense of honor, as in "I'm so proud' to have you in our town." But occasionally just plain happy as in "I'm ' proud to see gas prices down." This is a widespread colloquial usage in the southern United States.
(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.}}
Proud is a synonym of lordly.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between proud and lordly
is that proud is (obsolete) excited by sexual desire; (of female animals) in heat while lordly is (obsolete) of or relating to a lord.As adjectives the difference between proud and lordly
is that proud is gratified; feeling honoured (by something); feeling satisfied or happy about a fact or event while lordly is (obsolete) of or relating to a lord.As an adverb lordly is
in the manner of a lord showing command or nobility.proud
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Alternative forms
* prowd (obsolete)Adjective
(er)citation, passage=‘[…] I remember a lady coming to inspect St. Mary's Home where I was brought up and seeing us all in our lovely Elizabethan uniforms we were so proud of, and bursting into tears all over us because “it was wicked to dress us like charity children”. […]’.}}
- Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished.
Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* ashamedDerived terms
* do someone proud * house-proud * proud as a peacock * proudfall * proud-hearted * proudling * proudly * proudness * proud-pied * proud-stomachedAnagrams
* ----lordly
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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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