lording
English
editNoun
editlording (plural lordings)
- (archaic) A lord.
- c. 1587–1588, [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:
- 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?
- (obsolete) A lordling; a little lord.
Verb
editlording
- present participle and gerund of lord
References
edit- Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
Anagrams
editMiddle English
editNoun
editlording
- Alternative form of lordlyng