lordliness

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A Hogarthian cast of characters, from Britain's lordliest media barons to subalterns on the yellowest of yellow rags.

From The Guardian • Nov. 29, 2012

With a membership limited to 300, the National Academy is the lordliest body of scholars in the country and the Comstock Prize, its highest honor, is awarded only once every five years.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though dust your house, Justinian,     Still stands your lordliest shrine, But the dark men who walk therein,     Know not of bread nor wine.

From Poems - Second Series by Squire, J. C. (John Collings)

I. Love, loyallest and lordliest born of things, Immortal that shouldst be, though all else end, In plighted hearts of fearless friend with friend, Whose hand may curb or clip thy plume-plucked wings?

From A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

A marble staircase led him to the lordliest smoking-room in London.

From Corporal Sam and Other Stories by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir