Meanings
- uncountableThe fact or quality of being overlordly; superciliousness.
His Boer War experience, annotated in the ribbons which he wore, had given him a touch of overlordliness, which now tuned his irritable remarks.
1928, Edmund Blunden, Undertones of War, Penguin, published 2010, page 59
Origin
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