Adjective : lordly contempt. ,lordly manners.    From Dictionary.com. 

But Josephine felt nothing humiliating in his lordliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference

But there is often a lordliness about it which some, such as I, may find redeems it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friday, June 06, 2008] Reference

"Oh, I've seen to that," said Christopher with the faintest suspicion of lordliness in his voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference

"Take away that nasty old hot stuff, and bring me some cold!" he commanded, with a spurt of his usual lordliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Polly of the Hospital Staff] Reference

He was over the middle size; straight, firm, strong built, and compact, with the air of native lordliness and command.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

Then Tom with pity's tenderest lordliness patted her arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

With the innate lordliness of a brother he already put it down to jealousy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Freelands] Reference

Dom Manuel smiled, and you saw that he retained at least his former lordliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Figures of Earth] Reference

All the assumptions of an essential lordliness remain -- and none of the duties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mankind in the Making] Reference

All the assumptions of an essential lordliness remain — and none of the duties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mankind in the Making] Reference

This is one of the cheapest ways I know of attaining the sensation of true lordliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Try Anything Twice] Reference

Who would have expected that spiritual pastors would be warned against lordliness and pride?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Epistles of St. Peter] Reference

But, on the other hand, for all his lordliness of spirit, he felt that the man was his master.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life] Reference

It calls them out of themselves, and corrects the lordliness and pride of the individual will.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons. [Vol. I.]] Reference

The thing of importance is everywhere the individual who is trying to show off his lordliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students] Reference

It is a terrible temptation, and if we yield to it, it swells the heart with lordliness and pride.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Epistles of St. Peter] Reference

“He had never entered a house so redolent of high virtue, uprightness, and lordliness as that mansion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims] Reference

The humbleness and poverty of her surroundings brought out into relief the wealth and lordliness of her charms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76] Reference

He had put on weight, increased in size, and, protected by the taboo, had become self-confident almost to lordliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry of the Islands] Reference

He took his station on a taller hilltop and gave voice to his lordliness in a neigh that rang and re-rang down a hollow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alcatraz] Reference

It was an imposing room divided by a long high rostrum upon which sat a terrible looking individual of the utmost lordliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life] Reference

Origen: And observe, He says not vultures or crows, but "eagles," shewing the lordliness and royalty of all who have believed in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew] Reference

A good-humored lordliness that keeps aggression in play.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Review of Books] Reference

Doing the honour of thy lordliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra] Reference

But see the lordliness of a high condition! —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pamela] Reference

In its lordliness and zest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rampolli] Reference

There was no lordliness about Traill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sally Bishop A Romance] Reference

And her Launcelot and their lordliness!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Songs of Friendship] Reference

By right of mercy and love's lordliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Light of Asia] Reference

For lordliness, and valour free of fear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Indian Poetry Containing "The Indian Song of Songs," from the Sanskrit of the Gîta Govinda of Jayadeva, Two books from "The Iliad Of India" (Mahábhárata), "Proverbial Wisdom" from the Shlokas of the Hitopadesa, and other Oriental Poems.] Reference

He liked the lordliness of giving largess.    From Wordnik.com.  [Main Street] Reference

For all thy grace and lordliness of youth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in Song] Reference

His manner had its old touch of lordliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House] Reference

With such high lordliness of ruth and right.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Light of Asia] Reference

But see the lordliness of a high condition!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded] Reference

English lordliness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Women] Reference

Lere, lordliness, grace, generosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Command, mastery, lordliness, are bred into its tones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference