Meanings
adjectiveunlordly (comparative more unlordly, superlative most unlordly)
comparative more unlordly · superlative most unlordly
- Not lordly.
[W]ere it such a desperate hazard to put to the venture [...] the Pastorlike and Apostolick imitation of meeke and unlordly Discipline [...] without the ignoble Hucsterage of pidling Tithes?
1641 May, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC, page 86
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