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noun
Lording  n.  
1.
The son of a lord; a person of noble lineage. (Obs.)
2.
A little lord; a lordling; a lord, in contempt or ridicule. (Obs.) Note: In the plural, a common ancient mode of address equivalent to "Sirs" or "My masters." "Therefore, lordings all, I you beseech."






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"Lording" Quotes from Famous Books



... save itself in the Escape from Paris. To all this the guitar-player vamped an accompaniment which Michelino relentlessly silenced by a gesture when it became unbearable. It was absurd to see him lording it over the company, nearly a dozen of us and the youngest nearly old enough to be his father. When it was time to retire, beds were found for the visitors and I passed a comfortable night ...
— Castellinaria - and Other Sicilian Diversions • Henry Festing Jones

... of the mountain lion it rises; where the mighty crags, throne-like, o'ershadow the lesser woods; where the royal beast, lording it over an inferior world, stealthily prowls and lashes its angry tail at the impudence of such a disturbance in its vast domain. Its basilisk stare looks out from its furtive, drooping head, and its commands ring out in ...
— In the Brooding Wild • Ridgwell Cullum

... dead, came as suitors to Penelope. The queen (it was true) continued single, but was little better than a state-prisoner in the power of these men, who under a pretence of waiting her decision, occupied the king's house, rather as owners than guests, lording and domineering at their pleasure, profaning the palace, and wasting the royal substance, with their feasts and mad riots. Moreover the goddess told him how fearing the attempts of these lawless men upon the person of his ...
— Books for Children - The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 3 • Charles and Mary Lamb

... found them guarded by a Troop of Villains: The Sons of publick Rapine were destroying. They told me, by the Sentence of the Law, They had Commission to seize all thy Fortune: Nay more, Priuli's cruel Hand had sign'd it. Here stood a Ruffian with a horrid Face, Lording it o'er a Pile of massy Plate, Tumbled into a Heap for publick Sale. There was another making villanous Jests At thy Undoing: He had ta'en Possession Of all thy ancient most domestick Ornaments: Rich Hangings intermix'd and wrought with Gold; The very Bed, which on thy Wedding ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele

... come upon the world, To scatter this sweet night of fantasy With morning, pour'd on my dream-feasted heart Out of thine eyes, Judith. And yet I still Feared for my dream, even as a maiden fears The body of her lover. But, in the midst Of all this charm'd delaying,—behold Death Leapt into our world, lording it, standing huge In front of the future, looking at us! Thou seest now why, when the people came Crying wildly to be given up to death, I bade them wait five days?—That I at last Might stamp the image of my glorious ...
— Emblems Of Love • Lascelles Abercrombie

... by the sentence of the law, They had commission to seize all thy fortune.— Here stood a ruffian with a horrid face, Lording it o'er a pile of massy plate, Tumbled into a heap for public sale;—There was another, making villainous jests At thy undoing; but had tacit possession Of all thy ancient ...
— Guy Mannering • Sir Walter Scott

... whisper in the ear of either a suggestion of personal leadership. Ambition, that ambition which would exalt self at the expense of another, was not yet born, and neither of these happy beings could conceive it possible to achieve a higher happiness by lording it over ...
— Daybreak: A Romance of an Old World • James Cowan

... native of a country which has been twice liberated from horrid and detestable thraldom by the hands of Englishmen. But for Wellington and his heroes, Portugal would have been French at this day; but for Napier and his mariners, Miguel would now be lording it in Lisbon. To return, however, to the officer; every one laughed at him, and he ...
— The Bible in Spain • George Borrow

... endure him no longer. When he came before the commission court he altogether declined them as a lawful judicatory, and would not give the chancellor (being a clergyman) and the bishops their titles by lording of them, yet some had the courage to befriend him, particularly, the lord Lorn (afterwards the famous marquis of Argyle), who did as much for him as was within his power to do; but the bishop of Galloway, threatening that if he got not his will of him, he would write to the king; it was ...
— Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) • John Howie



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