overlordliness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From overlordly +‎ -ness.

Noun[edit]

overlordliness (uncountable)

  1. 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.
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