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lordeth

lordeth is the third-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 lordeth

lord + -eth

Questions about lordeth

What is lordeth the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Lordeth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lord.

Words near lordeth in the dictionary

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

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