lordfully

English

Etymology

From lordful +‎ -ly.

Adverb

lordfully (comparative more lordfully, superlative most lordfully)

  1. In a lordful manner
    • 1843, Thomas Perronet Thompson, Exercises, political and others - Page 185:
      They have said boldly and lordfully, " Here we stand, the offspring of the by gone time, an oak here and a mushroom there, and as long as we can each count one, you shall have no good thing either with us or without us."
    • 2009, Michael J. Meyer, The Essential Criticism of John Steinbeck's of Mice and Men:
      In a very real sense, then, George lordfully creates the troubles for which Lennie will himself be blamed and punished—though he only obeys his master's vengeful voice.
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