Lording

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

  Lording \Lord"ing\, n. [Lord + -ing, 3.]
     1. The son of a lord; a person of noble lineage. [Obs.]
        --Spenser.
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     2. A little lord; a lordling; a lord, in contempt or


        ridicule. [Obs.] --Swift.
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     Note: In the plural, a common ancient mode of address
           equivalent to "Sirs" or "My masters."
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                 Therefore, lordings all, I you beseech.
                                                    --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lord \Lord\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lorded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Lording}.]
     To play the lord; to domineer; to rule with arbitrary or
     despotic sway; -- sometimes with over; and sometimes with it
     in the manner of a transitive verb; as, rich students lording
     it over their classmates.
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           The whiles she lordeth in licentious bliss. --Spenser.
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           I see them lording it in London streets. --Shak.
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           And lorded over them whom now they serve. --Milton.
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