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lordest

lordest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of lord.

Meaning of lord

Verb

lord (third-person singular simple present lords, present participle lording, simple past and past participle lorded)

  1. (ambitransitive) To domineer or act like a lord.
    • The grisly toadstool grown there might I see, / And loathed paddocks lording on the same.1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “December. Ægloga Duodecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC
  2. (transitive) To invest with the dignity, power, and privileges of a lord; to grant the title of lord.
    • He being thus lorded / Not only with what my revenue yielded, / But what my power might else exact, […] / he did believe / He was indeed the Dukec. 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, act 1, scene 2

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Origin of lordest

lord + -est

Questions about lordest

What is lordest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Lordest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of lord.

Words near lordest in the dictionary

  1. Lorden
  2. Lordens
  3. lordery
  4. lordess
  5. lordesses
  6. lordest
  7. lordeth
  8. lordful
  9. lordfully
  10. lordhood
  11. lordhoods

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