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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lord.

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lord +‎ -eth

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Examples

  • Then they thus departing came into the land of Canaan to their father, and showed all this to their father, and said: Joseph thy son liveth and he lordeth in all the land of

    The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900

  • That me thou makest thus tormented be: the whiles she lordeth in licentious blisse of her freewill, scorning both thee and me.

    Amoretti and Epithalamion 1594

  • Go to now, lift thy hands in prayer to Zeus and shoot thy dart at this fellow, whoe'er he be that lordeth it here and hath already wrought the Trojans much mischief, seeing he hath unstrung the knees of many a brave man; if indeed it be not some god wroth with the Trojans, in anger by reason of sacrifices; the wrath of god is a sore thing to fall on men. "

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1882

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