unlordly
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]unlordly (comparative more unlordly, superlative most unlordly)
- Not lordly.
- 1641 May, John Milton, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavvses that hitherto have Hindred it; republished as Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC, 2nd book, pages 71–72:
- [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?