laford

Middle English

Etymology

See lord

Noun

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.

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   • 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...