overlordliness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From overlordly + -ness.
Noun
[edit]overlordliness (uncountable)
- The fact or quality of being overlordly; superciliousness.
- 1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 59:
- His Boer War experience, annotated in the ribbons which he wore, had given him a touch of overlordliness, which now tuned his irritable remarks.