LORD, LORDLY
ADJECTIVES
1205 ► DRIGHTLIKE noble, lordly → obs.
1350 ► SIRLY lordly, haughty, imperious → obs.
1440 ► PONTIFICAL stately, dignified; lordly, proud; honourable
1531 ► MASTERLY characteristic of a master or lord; usually in a bad sense, arbitrary, despotic; imperious, overbearing, domineering → obs.
1613 ► PONTIFICIAL stately; lordly; imperious
1629 ► PONTIFICIAN stately, lordly
1850 ► LAIRDLY lordly, aristocratic, lavish, extravagant → Sc.
NOUNS, PERSON
1000 ► LORDING a lord; a man of high rank or office; a gentleman → obs.
1300 ► LORDLING a young, minor, or inferior lord
1450 ► LAIRD a lord; a landed proprietor; a land owner, a yeoman
1567 ► LORDING a minor or inferior lord; a young lord → arch., contemptuous usage
1642 ► LORDLET a lord; a minor or inferior lord; a young lord → contemptuous usage
1855 ► LORDKIN a young lord; a minor lord → hist.
1867 ► LAIRDLIN a petty laird → Sc.
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