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unlordly

unlordly adjective: not lordly.

Adjective

unlordly (comparative more unlordly, superlative most unlordly)

  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?1641 May, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC...

Forms of unlordly

comparativemore unlordly
superlativemost unlordly

Origin of unlordly

From un- + lordly.

Questions about unlordly

What does unlordly mean?
Unlordly means not lordly.
What part of speech is unlordly?
Unlordly is an adjective.

Words near unlordly in the dictionary

  1. unloquacious
  2. unloquaciousness
  3. unlord
  4. unlorded
  5. unlording
  6. unlordly
  7. unlords
  8. unlosability
  9. unlosable
  10. unlose
  11. unloseable

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