laford

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Middle English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

See lord

Noun[edit]

laford

  1. (chiefly Early Middle English) Alternative form of lord
    • a. 1175, Cotton Homilies, section 243:
      Ure laford ihesu crist þe seið Sine me nichil potestis facere.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1894, Bodleian Library. Manuscript. 343; Napier, Arthur S., History of the Holy Rood-tree: a twelfth century version of the cross-legend...
      Ða answærde he [sē cniht] him ⁊ cwæð; Eala laford moyses sonæ swa ic þa ȝyrdan nimæn wolde...
      He [the servant] answered him and said, "Lo, lord Moses, just as I was about to grasp the rods...
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