lording

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noun

A lord.

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Meanings

nounlording (plural lordings)

plural lordings

  1. archaicA lord.

    How now my Lords of Egypt & Zenocrate? Now muſt your iewels be reſtor’d againe: And I that triumpht ſo be ouercome. How ſay you Lordings, Is not this your hope?

    c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act I, scene ii
  2. obsoleteA lordling; a little lord.
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of lord

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