Unlordly

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    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?"

Example

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"[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?"

Etymology

From un- + lordly.

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