Adonai

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Adonai \Ad`o*na"i\, n. [Heb. ad[=o]n[=a]i, lit., my lord.]
     A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old
     Testament by the word "Lord".
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     Note: The later Jews used its vowel points to fill out the


           tetragrammaton {Yhvh}, or {Ihvh}, "the incommunicable
           name," and in reading substituted "Adonai".
           [Webster 1913 Suppl.]