unlordly
English
Etymology
Adjective
unlordly (comparative more unlordly, superlative most unlordly)
- Not lordly.
- 1641 May, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Cavses that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC, page 86; republished in (Please provide a date or year):
- [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?