lordfully

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adverb

In a lordful manner

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adverblordfully (comparative more lordfully, superlative most lordfully)

comparative more lordfully · superlative most lordfully

  1. In a lordful manner

    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.

    2009, Michael J. Meyer, The Essential Criticism of John Steinbeck's of Mice and Men
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    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."

    1843, Thomas Perronet Thompson, Exercises, political and others - Page 185

Origin

Cite this entry
APA

lordfully. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lordfully

MLA

“lordfully.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lordfully. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “lordfully,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/lordfully.

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