Meanings
plural lordings
- 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 - obsoleteA lordling; a little lord.
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of lord
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