year of the Lord

A form of year of our Lord — A year of the Common Era/Christian Era; anno Domini; numbered from the once estimated first year for the birth of Jesus Christ.

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Meanings

nounyear of the Lord (plural years of the Lord)

plural years of the Lord

  1. alternativeAlternative form of year of our Lord.
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    And whosoever may hold the balance, though they should cast into the opposite scale all the bayonets and cannon, not only of France and England, but of Europe entire, how would it kick the beam against the simple, solid weight of the two hundred and fifty, or three hundred millions–and American mil- lions–destined to gather beneath the flutter of the stripes and stars, in the fast hastening year of the Lord 1945!

    1845 July and August, John O’Sullivan, “Annexation”, in United States Magazine and Democratic Review, volume 17, number 1, page 6
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APA

year of the Lord. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/year%20of%20the%20Lord

MLA

“year of the Lord.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/year%20of%20the%20Lord. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “year of the Lord,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/year%20of%20the%20Lord.

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