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Definition: Lord |
LordNoun1. The Judeo-Christian God. 2. A person who has general authority over others. 3. A titled peer of the realm. Verb1. Make a lord of someone. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Lord" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Satire | LORD, n. In American society, an English tourist above the state of a costermonger, as, lord 'Aberdasher, Lord Hartisan and so forth. The traveling Briton of lesser degree is addressed as "Sir," as, Sir 'Arry Donkiboi, or 'Amstead 'Eath. The word "Lord" is sometimes used, also, as a title of the Supreme Being; but this is thought to be rather flattery than true reverence. Miss Sallie Ann Splurge, of her own accord, Wedded a wandering English lord -- Wedded and took him to dwell with her "paw," A parent who throve by the practice of Draw. Lord Cadde I don't hesitate to declare Unworthy the father-in-legal care Of that elderly sport, notwithstanding the truth That Cadde had renounced all the follies of youth; For, sad to relate, he'd arrived at the stage Of existence that's marked by the vices of age. Among them, cupidity caused him to urge Repeated demands on the pocket of Splurge, Till, wrecked in his fortune, that gentleman saw Inadequate aid in the practice of Draw, And took, as a means of augmenting his pelf, To the business of being a lord himself. His neat-fitting garments he wilfully shed And sacked himself strangely in checks instead; Denuded his chin, but retained at each ear A whisker that looked like a blasted career. He painted his neck an incarnadine hue Each morning and varnished it all that he knew. The moony monocular set in his eye Appeared to be scanning the Sweet Bye-and-Bye. His head was enroofed with a billycock hat, And his low-necked shoes were aduncous and flat. In speech he eschewed his American ways, Denying his nose to the use of his A's And dulling their edge till the delicate sense Of a babe at their temper could take no offence. His H's -- 'twas most inexpressibly sweet, The patter they made as they fell at his feet! Re-outfitted thus, Mr. Splurge without fear Began as Lord Splurge his recouping career. Alas, the Divinity shaping his end Entertained other views and decided to send His lordship in horror, despair and dismay From the land of the nobleman's natural prey. For, smit with his Old World ways, Lady Cadde Fell -- suffering Caesar! -- in love with her dad! G.J. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Bible | Lord There are various Hebrew and Greek words so rendered. (1.) Heb. Jehovah, has been rendered in the English Bible LORD, printed in small capitals. This is the proper name of the God of the Hebrews. The form "Jehovah" is retained only in Ex. 6:3; Ps. 83:18; Isa. 12:2; 26:4, both in the Authorized and the Revised Version. (2.) Heb. 'adon, means one possessed of absolute control. It denotes a master, as of slaves (Gen. 24:14, 27), or a ruler of his subjects (45:8), or a husband, as lord of his wife (18:12). The old plural form of this Hebrew word is _'adonai_. From a superstitious reverence for the name "Jehovah," the Jews, in reading their Scriptures, whenever that name occurred, always pronounced it _'Adonai_. (3.) Greek kurios, a supreme master, etc. In the LXX. this is invariably used for "Jehovah" and "'Adonai." (4.) Heb. ba'al, a master, as having domination. This word is applied to human relations, as that of husband, to persons skilled in some art or profession, and to heathen deities. "The men of Shechem," literally "the baals of Shechem" (Judg. 9:2, 3). These were the Israelite inhabitants who had reduced the Canaanites to a condition of vassalage (Josh. 16:10; 17:13). (5.) Heb. seren, applied exclusively to the "lords of the Philistines" (Judg. 3:3). The LXX. render it by satrapies. At this period the Philistines were not, as at a later period (1 Sam. 21:10), under a kingly government. (See Josh. 13:3; 1 Sam. 6:18.) There were five such lordships, viz., Gath, Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, and Ekron. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Literature | Lord A nobleman. The word lord is a contraction of hlaford (Saxon for "loaf-author" or "bread-earner"). Retainers were called hlaf-ætas, or "bread-eaters." Verstegan suggests hlaf-ford, "bread-givers." (See Lady.) We have in Anglo-Saxon hlaf-ord, hlaford-gift (lordship), hlaford- less (lordless), hlafordom (dominion), and many more similar compounds. Lord, a hunchback (Greek, lord-os, crooked). Generally "My lord." Lord Drunk as a lord. (See Drunk .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | LORD. A crooked or hump-backed man. These unhappy people afford great scope for vulgar raillery; such as, 'Did you come straight from home? if so, you have got confoundedly bent by the way.' 'Don't abuse the gemman,' adds a by-stander, 'he has been grossl. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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The noun God is used in English to refer to an immortal, supernatural being, usually said to rule, alone or in company with other gods, over the destinies of humankind and the universe. When spelled with a capital "G" it is a proper noun, the name given in English to the one supreme being as postulated by the three major monotheistic religions, Christianity, Islam and Judaism. When spelled with a small "g" it is a common noun, referring to a postulated supernatural being of any religious system, as for example the gods of the Greek and Roman religions.
The word "God" comes from the Old English/German/Norse language family and is (in Western culture ) equivalent to the derivatives of the Latin word "Deus". Many major current monotheistic concepts of a "God" descend from the Abrahamic tradition of YHVH ("I am that I am", "I am the One Who Is," "He who cannot be named").
Conflicting interpretations arise regarding the name of "God", and what the name actually means -- often the infinite God concept is mixed with non-infinite personifications of "God" (i.e. God as an old man, a Zeus or Odin.) A belief in a "God" or gods is found in all cultures, although followers of a particular God or gods may consider other gods to be inferior. Likewise many people hold non-literal, sometimes even secular interpretations of God -- few of which may actually contradict the pure concept of an "infinite God," despite any contradictions these may have with any particular religious tradition.
Names for God in Monotheistic Religions
The generic term God is often used as a proper name by most adherents of most monotheistic faiths. Different names for God have arisen from both language differences and from religious traditions. Both kinds of branches have generated evolutions in the name of "God."
See also the entry on Names given to the divine
- Allah - Islam/Arabic. See also the Ninety-nine_names_of_Allah
- Also Eli -- Aramaic, the language of Jesus (Isa)
- Jehovah or Yahweh - one of the names used for God in the Bible, based on the Hebrew YHVH (יהוה). This name, while appearing in Jewish prayers, is never pronounced (Adonai is usually said instead). As written Hebrew did not originally mark vowels, the original pronunciation is speculative.
- Adonai - Judaism. See The name of God in Judaism for many other Jewish names of God.
- The Holy Trinity (meaning The Father, Jesus Christ the Son, and the Holy Spirit/"Holy Ghost") - A name used primarily in Catholic and Eastern Orthodox prayers and liturgy. The doctrine of the Trinity is held by most of Christianity from at least the time of the First Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D. Compare Godhead.
Arguments Regarding the Existence of God
Throughout history, many arguments have been made both for and against the existence of God. For example, it has been argued that, without postulating the existence of one, eternal God, the origin of the universe appears inexplicable, since it is not logically possible for something to come from nothing. Conversely, it has been argued that such an origin may be an inevitable consequence of the paradox of nothingness, and that the inexplicable existence of God is no explanation at all. Due to the seemingly inconclusive nature of all such arguments, many have maintained that belief in God depends on faith, not upon any argument or proof.
Beliefs about the Nature of God
Theology is the study of the nature of the divine. In some cases, theologians attempt to explicate (and in some cases systematize) the assumptions that underlie specific, organized, religions; in other cases, theologians seek to transform a personal experience of the divine into some philosophical system. All theologies begin with a notion of "god;" different theologies have been grouped and classified according to their views on two fundamental issues:
Answers to these questions reflect, and imply, different positions concerning the relationship between god(s) and the world, and between god(s) and humankind.
- is God singular or plural?
- is God transcendent or immanent, or both?
A few people use the word "monotheism" to refer to the belief in a single god and use "theism" to refer to any belief in god(s), i.e., monotheism or polytheism. Some theists believe in the existence of other less powerful immortal beings, but give them other names such as angels or demons.
- Theism holds that God is both transcendent and immanent; thus, God is simultaneously infinite and in some way present in the affairs of the world. Most theists hold that God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent, although this belief raises questions about God's responsibility for evil and suffering in the world. Some theists ascribe to God a self-conscious or purposeful limiting of omnipotence, omniscience, or omnibenevolence. For a discussion of the meaning of "God" in this sense, see: What is God.
- Deism holds that God is wholly transcendent: God exists, but does not intervene in the world beyond what was necessary for Him to create it. In this view, God is not anthropomorphic, and does not literally answer prayers or cause miracles to occur.
- Monotheism holds that there is only one god, or that the one true god is worshipped in different religions under different names. Polytheism forms an opposite view to that of monotheism. Muhammad was influenced by monotheists who condemned the polytheism in which he grew up, so that he converted to a monotheistic worship of the principal god of the Quraishite pantheon, denying the deity of the rest.
- Pantheism holds that god is the universe and the universe is god -- or, more generally, that the universe is divine. It is most often explained as having the feeling that existence has a divine or awe-inspiring aspect. Hinduism is often characterized as pantheistic.
- Panentheism holds that God contains, but is not identical to, the Universe. The Kabbalah, Jewish mysticism, paints a panentheistic view of God; this view of God has wide acceptance in Hasidic Judaism. This is also the view of Process theology and the Christian movement known as Creation Spirituality.
- Maltheism is a form of theism which holds that God is a cruel, arrogant, abusive, and untruthful being, unworthy of worship. Maltheists are often monotheistic and believe that God is dependent on worship to live.
- Animism is the belief that spirits inhabit every existing thing, including plants, minerals, animals and, including all the elements, air, water, earth, and fire. The first form of worship probably expressed animist ideas. The anthropologist E. B. Tylor argued that religion originally took an animist form.
- Dualism, also called Manichaeism, holds that there is both a perfectly good God and an opposing evil deity of equal potence. It is the belief that there are only two fundamental things or substances or constituents of things in the world at large or in the human soul. An example would be that both good and evil simultaneously exist and that one cannot survive without the other. That they balance each other even though they are independent of each other. An ancient form of Zoroastrianism which was known to the ancient Greeks was dualist in nature.
- Henotheism is the belief in one god, but at the same time does not deny the existence of other gods. It is a variation of polytheism which holds that there are many gods, but one of them is supreme and the other ones are only ancillary and don't have the same level of "god-ness". Some forms of Greek and Roman classical polytheism fall into this category. The gods of Norse mythology, who are subsidiary to Odin are another example of henotheism. The term has come to mean in recent years that one believes in multiple god/esses, though the worshipper "borrows" from various cultural groups and may worship one above the others. An example would be worshipping a Greco-Roman god for one reason and then asking a Celtic god for something else. This form of henotheism is frequently condemned in the Torah or Old Testament. The pagans of the Roman Empire were similarly henotheistic, as are some modern-day Neopagans.
- Monolatrism forms a type of henotheism. Its adherents believe that many gods do exist, but these gods can exert their power only on those who worship them. Thus, a monolatrist may believe in the reality of both the Egyptian gods and the god described in the Bible, but sees him or herself as a member of only one of these religions. The gods that he/she worships affects their life; the other gods do not.
- Polytheism is the belief in more than one god/dess. In some beliefs it is said that all these god/desses are of equal power and authority while in others a hierarchy exists. The Greco-Roman deity structure exemplifies polytheism.
Many people find the concept of God meaningless or unnecessary:
- Atheism holds that no gods exist at all. Different atheists formulate this position in different ways.
- Agnosticism holds that a god or gods may or may not exist, but we cannot know.
- Logical positivism holds that the word "god" is (cognitively) meaningless.
God as Unity or Trinity
Jews, Muslims, and a small percent of Christians are unitarian monotheists. The vast majority of Christians have been and still are Trinitarian monotheists.
Unitarian monotheists hold that there is only one "person" (so to speak), or one basic substance, in God. Some consider Trinitarianism to be a form of polytheism. In contrast, Trinitarian monotheists believe in one god that exists as three distinct persons who share the same substance/essence; this belief is called the Trinity: compare with the Hindu Trimurti.
Mormons hold that God is one of three divine personages collectively referred to as the Godhead. One of these personages is a spirit without a body referred to as the Holy Ghost. The other two personages are spirits with perfected or glorified (often called celestial) bodies referred to as Heavenly Father (or less commonly Eloheim) and His Son, Jesus Christ. Mormons hold that God is a Holy Man, or sanctified human who advanced to his divine status through a repeatable process of progression, and that by following the precepts of their faith, humans can literally (eventually) become gods (sometimes phrased as "become like Heavenly Father") at some point after death and resurrection. This belief is mainly held in the largest Mormon branch, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This belief system implies, if not explicitly claims, polytheism as opposed to the monotheistic views of mainstream Christianity.
Monotheistic Conceptions of God
Judaism, Christianity and Islam see God as a single being who rules over the universe. These three Western faiths uphold an ancient monotheistic tradition that, according to their belief, is the original faith of mankind (or alternatively, for some believers, began with their first Prophet, Abraham). In this view one God, the creator of the world, exists. A number of additional attributes generally link to God, including Omnipotence (being all-powerful), Omniscience (being all-knowing), and Omnibenevolence (being all-loving).
These usually conceive of God as a personal God, with a will and personality. However, many important medieval rationalist philosophers of these three religions taught that an intelligent person should not view God as personal at all, and that all these teachings were actually meant as metaphors only. Some intellectuals of these three faiths in the West still accept these views as valid, although many of the laity today do not have a wide awareness of them.
In Eastern Christianity, it remains essential that God be personal; hence it speaks of the three persons of the Trinity. It also emphasizes that God has a will, and that God the Son has two wills, divine and human, though these are never in conflict. The personhood of God and of all human people is essential to the concept of theosis or divinization.
A number of arguments for the existence of God have been offered; one argument for the thesis that God does not exist is the problem of evil, with the project of Theodicy as a response.
Biblical definition of God
The book of Exodus in the Tanach (Hebrew Bible, Old Testament) characterizes God by these attributes: "The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children's children, to the third and the fourth generation."
The Tanach (Hebrew Bible, Old Testament) contains no systematic theology: No attempt is made to give a philosophical or rigorous definition of God, nor of how God acts in the world. The Tanach does not explicitly describe God's nature, exemplified by God's assertion in Exodus that "you cannot see my face; for man shall not see me and live." The Tanach does, however, provide a poetic depiction of God and His relationship with people. According to the biblical historian Yehezkal Kaufmann, the essential innovation of Biblical theology was to posit a God that cares about people, and that cares about whether people care about Him. Most people believe that the Bible should be viewed as humanity's view of God, but theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel described the Biblical God as "anthropopathic," and said that we should read the Bible as God's view of humanity.
Similarly, the New Testament also contains no systematic theology: no attempt is made to give a philosophical or rigorous definition of God, nor of how God acts in the world. The New Testament does, however, provide an implicit theology as it teaches that God became human while remaining fully God, in the person of Jesus Christ. In this view, God becomes someone that can be seen and touched, and may speak and act in a manner easily perceived by humans, while also remaining transcendant and invisible. This appears to be a radical departure from the concepts of God found in the Hebrew Bible and in the Qur'an. The New Testament's statements regarding the nature of God were eventually developed into the doctrine of the Trinity.
Aristotelian view of God
A separate article exists on the Aristotelian view of God. Much of this article discusses Aristotle's book on first philosophy, the Metaphysics, in which Aristotle discusses the meaning of "being as being". In brief, Aristotle holds that "being" primarily refers to the Unmoved Movers, and assigned one of these to each movement in the heavens. Each Unmoved Mover continuously contemplates its own contemplation, and everything that fits the second meaning of "being" by having its source of motion in itself, moves because the knowledge of its Mover causes it to emulate this Mover (or should).
Many medieval philosophers made use of the idea of approaching a knowledge of God through negative attributes. For example, we should not say that God exists in the usual sense of the term; all we can safely say is that God is not nonexistent. We should not say that God is wise, but we can say that God is not ignorant, i.e. in some way God has some properties of knowledge. We should not say that God is One, but we can state that there is no multiplicity in God's being. See apophatic theology. This article also discusses Aristotle discussion of Platonic theory, according to which ideas are the ultimate principles of Being.
Aristotelian view of God
Kabbalistic definition of God
Kabbalah (Jewish esoteric mysticism) teaches that God is neither matter nor spirit. Rather God is the creator of both, but is Himself neither. But if God is so different than His creation, how can there be any interaction between the Creator and the created? This question prompted Kabbalists to discuss two aspects of God, (a) God Himself, who in the end is unknowable, and (b) the revealed aspect of God who created the universe, preserves the universe, and interacts with mankind. Kabbalists believe that these two aspects are not contradictory but complement one another.
Some Kabbalistic Jews, such as Moses Cordovero and Lubavitch (Chabad) Hasidism, hold that the first aspect of God is actually all that there really is. Nothing exists except for God, and all else is an illusion. (Depending on how this is explained, such a view can be considered panentheism, or pantheism.) Most other Kabbalists hold that there is an aspect of God that is revealed to the world.
Kabbalists speak of the first aspect of God as 'En Sof'; this is translated as "the infinite," or "that which has no limits". In this view, nothing can be said about this aspect of God. This aspect of God is impersonal. Kabbalists speak of the second aspect of God as being seen by the universe as ten emanations from God; these emanations are called 'sefirot'.
The 'sefirot' mediate the interaction of the ultimate unknowable God with the physical and spiritual world. Some explain the sefirot as stages of the creative process whereby God, from His own infinite being, created the progression of realms which culminated in our finite and physical universe. Others suggest that the sefirot may be thought of as analogous to the fundamental laws of physics. Just as gravity, electro-magnetism, the strong nuclear force, and the weak nuclear force allow for interactions between matter and energy, the ten sefirot allow for interaction between God and the Universe.
A difficulty with this view is that the Kabbalah teaches that the Sefirot are not distinct from the Ein-Sof, but are somehow within it. The idea that there are ten divine sefirot could evolve over time into the idea that "God is One being, yet in that One being there are Ten". This would be almost the same as the Christian belief in the Trinity, which states that while God is "One", in that One there are three persons. This interpretation of Kabbalah in fact did occur among a small number of Jews in the 17th century. Rabbi Leon Modena, a 17th century Venetian critic of kabbalah, wrote that if we were to accept the Kabbalah, then the Christian trinity would indeed be compatible with Judaism, as the Trinity closely resembles the Kabbalistic doctrine of sefirot. This critique was in response to the fact that some Jews went so far as to address individual sefirot individually in some of their prayers. Kabbalah had many other opponents, notably Rabbi Yitzchak ben Sheshet Perfet (The Rivash); he stated that Kabbalah was "worse than Christianity", as it made God into 10, not just into three. The critique, however, was unfair. Most followers of Kabbalah never believed this interpretation of Kabbalah. The Christian Trinity concept posits that there are three persons existing within the Godhead, one of whom literally became a human being. In contrast, the mainstream understanding of the Kabbalistic sefirot holds that they have no mind or intelligence; further, they are not addressed in prayer, and they can not become a human being. They are conduits for interaction - not persons or beings.
The Kabbalah's idea of emanations could also be compared to the distinction made by fourteenth century Christian theologian Gregory Palamas. Palamas drew a distinction between God's essence and energies, affirming that God was unknowable in His essence, but knowable in His energies. Palamas never enumerated God's energies, but described them simply as ways that God could be seen acting in the Universe, and particularly on people, from the light shining from the face of Moses after Moses descended Mt. Sinai, to the light surrounding Moses, Elijah and Jesus Christ on Mt. Tabor during the transfiguration of Jesus. For Palamas, God's energies were not some other thing separate from God, but were God; however the idea of energies was kept very distinct from the idea of the three persons of the Trinity.
Today all Hasidic Orthodox Jews are Kabbalistic; some non-Hasidic Orthodox Jews are kabbalisticly inclined, while some are rationalists. Most Reform and Conservative Jews are rationalists.
Process theology and process philosophy definition of God
See the entries on Process theology and panentheism.
Neopagan Concept of God and/or gods
Neopaganism allows for diverse personal beliefs about the nature of God. There is little specific dogma. Most Neopagans hold a polytheistic, pantheistic or panentheistic belief, often with some elements of animism. Among Neopagans, and especially Wiccans, God is commonly expressed through the duality of the Goddess and the Horned God. However, there are those Pagans who align themselves with the Left Hand Path or LHP. These LHP Pagans are generally autotheists.
While on the surface Neopagans worship many gods, many practice a kind of monotheism, believing the many gods to be aspects of the One God. Many others practice duotheism, for example in many forms of Wicca all gods are considered aspects of the Lord, and all goddesses aspects of the Lady.
Most Heathens consider themselves strict polytheists.
The Ultimate
Arguably, Eastern conceptions of The Ultimate (this, too, has many different names) are not conceptions of a personal divinity, though certain Western conceptions of what is at least called "God" (e.g., Spinoza's pantheistic conception and various kinds of mysticism) resemble Eastern conceptions of The Ultimate.
The mathematician Georg Cantor identified God with the mathematical concept of the Absolute Infinite.
Gender of God
In Judaism it is a fundamental heresy to believe that God has a gender. Grammatically, most of the Hebrew names for God are masculine; a few are grammatically feminine; This is not held to have literal significance. In regards to translating Hebrew names of God into English, most Orthodox and many Conservative Jews argue that it would be wrong to apply English female pronouns to God, not because God is of the male gender, but because doing so tends to draw attention to God as having gender, and also because the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) usually uses names that are grammatically masculine.
In Christianity, one person of God, the Son, is believed to have become incarnate as a human male; however, the other two persons of God are without gender, since they are not at all physical. (Mormonism is an exception; it teaches that God the Father also has a perfect body of flesh and bones, while agreeing that the Holy Spirit is bodiless.) The other two persons (the Father and the Holy Spirit) have traditionally been referred to using male pronouns and have primarily been associated with male imagery; but some Christians today, especially those inspired by feminism, do not consider this tradition to be binding. Other commentators point out that Hebrew tradition sees the Spirit as female.
Most Neopagan traditions, such as Wicca, believe in both male and female Deities. A few (especially Dianic Wicca) see the Divine as entirely feminine, and call her the Goddess.
For a more detailed look at this issue, see the article on God and gender.
Revelation: How God Communicates With Mankind
Many religions hold that God can communicate his will to mankind; in Judaism, Christianity and Islam this process is called revelation. Some religions believe that revelation is only available to certain individuals, dubbed prophets. Others believe that revelation is channeled through divinely sanctioned religious institutions, and still other, more mystically oriented religions, believe that revelation is generally available to all people. The books of the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible; aka Old Testament) are held to be the product of revelation by Jews. Both the Old Testament and the New Testament are held to be the product of divine revelation by Christians. Muslims consider the Tanakh and the New Testament to be deliberately corrupted and falsified works; instead they affirm that the Koran alone represents divine revelation. How revelation works, and what precisely one means when one says that a book is "divine" remains a matter of some dispute.
Neopaganists teach that communication from the gods is usually direct and experiential, and do not have the concepts of "scripture", "prophet" or "revelation" in the sense used by the Abrahamic religions. Divine messages are believed to usually be given directly to the person or persons for whom they are meant. In some traditions, a ritual sometimes considered revelatory is called Drawing Down the Moon, in which a high priestess (or sometimes High Priest) invokes the Goddess and speaks by Divine inspiration to an assembled coven. This ritual occurs most commonly in the Wiccan traditions.
Omnipotence and Omniscience
Discussions about God between people of different faiths, or indeed even between people of the same faith, often prove unproductive, in no small amount due to people using the same words but assigning them different meanings. This situation occurs when some monotheists within Christianity, Judaism, and Islam state that God is omnipotent. In practice one finds that the term "omnipotent" has been used to connote a number of different positions. See the articles on Omnipotence, Omnipresence and Predestination.
Many monotheists reject altogether the view that God is omnipotent. In Unitarian-Universalism, much of Conservative Judaism and Reform Judaism, and some liberal wings of Protestant Christianity, God is said to act in the world through persuasion, and not by coercion. God makes Himself manifest in the world through inspiration and the creation of possibility, but not by miracles or violations of the laws of nature. The most popular works espousing this point come from Rabbi Harold Kushner (in Judaism). This is the view that also was developed independently by Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, in the theological system known as process theology.
See a list of Deities from various religions. See also Goddess.
Some of the Hindu Gods include Brahman, Devi, Vishnu, and Siva. See the entry on Hinduism for a discussion of this faith's theology, which is fairly complicated: most of its adherents are polytheists, but a few are monotheists.
God as a computer, alien, etc.
Some comparatively new belief systems and books portray God as an alien. Many of these theories hold that intelligent aliens from another world have been visiting Earth for many thousands of years, and have influenced the development of our religions. Some of these books posit that prophets or messiahs were sent to the human race in order to teach humanity morality, and to encourage our civilization to grow and develop.
Some people have posited that perhaps God is really an intelligence that at some point in the past become sufficiently advanced that it uploaded itself to the very fabric of the cosmos. In this view, this god-intelligence now looks over the Earth.
Similar to this theory is the belief or aspiration that humans will create a God entity, emerging from an artificial intelligence. Arthur C. Clarke, a science fiction writer (and futurist of sorts), said in an interview that: It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him.
Another variant on this hypothesis is that humanity or a segment of humanity will, through self-evolution, create a posthuman God from itself.
See also: Satan, The Devil, The relationship between religion and science -- The nature of God -- God and gender
References
- Dr. William Lane Craig, Talbot School of Theology. http://www.leaderu.com/offices/billcraig/menus/
- The Etymology of the Name of God
- God as a `Great Programmer' who wrote the program for our universe?
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "God."
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In British politics, the House of Lords is the unelected upper house of the United Kingdom Parliament. (The lower house is the House of Commons.) The House of Lords is unique in combining both legislative and judicial functions in the one body: it is both the upper house of Parliament and the highest court of appeal for criminal cases in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and for civil cases in the whole of the United Kingdom. The House of Lords is located in the Palace of Westminster, and is used for the State Opening of Parliament, as by convention, the Sovereign may not enter the elected House of Commons.See also Judicial functions of the House of Lords
Membership
The members of the House are:The Archbishops and Bishops are called Lord Spiritual, while the other lords are known as Lords Temporal.
- Twenty-six clergymen of the Church of England, namely the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of Durham, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Winchester and the twenty-one longest-serving bishops of other dioceses.
- The Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, who with other Lords of Appeal hear legal cases and together act as the UK's highest court. They are appointed for a term of years concluding during the year in which the Lord of Appeal turns seventy; at the end of which they no longer hear legal cases on a regular basis but remain members of the House of Lords. They are generally referred to as the Law Lords and during their time as judges traditionally refrain from political debate.
- Life Peers, appointed members for life by the Queen (in practice, the Queen seeks the advice of the Prime Minister, who is the real appointer). Life Peers hold the title of Baron or Baroness.
- Hereditary Peers, who inherit their seats. Originally several hundred Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, Viscounts, and Barons were eligible to sit; recent reforms mean that only ninety-two may. Currently, these ninety-two consist of fifteen "office-holders", that is, Deputy Speakers and Deputy Chairmen, who are elected by the House; seventy-five party or crossbench members, elected by their party or group; and two who hold royal appointments: the Lord Great Chamberlain and the Earl Marshal. The British Labour party government plans to eventually eliminate all hereditary privilege in the House.
The House of Lords is presided over by the Lord Chancellor, the Government minister in charge of the Lord Chancellor's department which includes partial responsibilty for the administration of the British judicial system.
In June 2003 the UK Government announced its intention to abolish the post of Lord Chancellor; the new speaker of the House of Lords will not be a minister. In addition, it plans to create a new supreme court that will take over the judicial functions of the Lords of Appeal.
Procedure
Sittings
The House of Lords meets at the Palace of Westminster in London in the lavishly decorated House of Lords Chamber.The House of Lords sits on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Friday sessions are only held when the House is very busy.
The House holds a number of recesses each year. The longest recess is the Summer Recess, which lasts from mid-July to mid-October. The other recesses, including the Easter, Whit, and Christmas Recesses, usually last for one to two weeks.
Speaker
The Lord Chancellor serves as the Speaker of the House of Lords. Often, a Deputy Speaker presides.The Lord Speaker is merely the House's mouthpiece; he has little power compared to the Speaker of the House of Commons. He does not have the authority to maintain order or discipline members; such measures may be taken only by the House as a whole.
Debate
The Speaker of the House of Commons may recognise MPs for speech in whatever order he pleases, but the Lord Chancellor has no such authority. Instead it is the House which decides, either by acclamation or by voting on a motion that a particular noble Lord "be now heard". Often, however, the Leader of the House of Lords or other senior Government minister will suggest an order, which is generally followed. A speech is always addressed to the House as a whole (My Lords), rather than, as is done in the House of Commons, to the Speaker.If a member wishes to refer to an individual Lord, he or she must do so in the third person. The forms used are: for Dukes, the noble Duke, the Duke of..., for other Marquesses, Earls, and Viscounts, the noble Marquess (or Earl or Viscount), Lord..., for Barons, the noble Lord, Lord..., for Baronesses, the noble Baroness, Lady..., for Archbishops, the Most Reverend Primate, the Archbishop of..., and for Bishops, the Right Reverend Prelate, the Bishop of.... The words noble and gallant are used instead of noble if the Lord in question is a Field Marshal, Admiral of the Fleet, Marshal of the Royal Air Force, or holder of the Victoria Cross or George Cross. Similarly, noble and learned is used for the present or former Lord Chancellor, Lords of Appeal, Attorney-General, Solicitor-General, Lords Justices of Appeal, and Judges of the High Court.
Voting
All motions are at first subject to a voice vote. The Lord Speaker then gives his opinion as to which side won the voice vote. If his assessment is challenged by any Lord, then a division occurs. On either side of the House Chamber is a division lobby. Those who wish to vote "Content" (yes) enter one lobby, while those who wish to vote "Not-Content" (no) enter the other. As members then exit the lobby and reenter the Chamber, their votes and names are recorded by tellers and clerks. The tellers then announce the numbers of Contents and Not-Contents to the Lord Speaker, who then announces the result to the House.
Committees
Unlike in the United States Congress, committees in the House of Lords are not very powerful. The entire house, rather than committees, conduct the review of bills. The Standing Committees used by the House of Commons are not present in the House of Lords.Lords Committees scrutinize government activities and investigate specific areas of legislation. The Committees of the House of Lords are as follows:
Some Committees, such as the Privileges Committee and the Procedure Committee, are permanent. Others, such as the Select Committee on the Speakership of the House, are temporary committees that expire after they make a final report.
- Animals in Scientific Procedures Select Committee
- Constitution Committee
- Select Committee on Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform
- Economic Affairs Committee
- European Union Select Committee
- House Committee
- Liason Committee
- Committee for Privileges
- Procedure Committee
- Religious Offences Committee
- Science and Technology Select Committee
- Select Committee on the Speakership of the House
Legislative Functions
Conventions
There is a convention known as the Salisbury Convention according to which the House of Lords will not oppose any government legislation promised by its election manifesto. And in the case of legislation not covered by this convention, the Parliament Acts 1911 and 1949 apply. They limit the power of the House of Lords to delaying a bill for up to one year, after which it may receive Royal Assent, if the Commons passes it again, without the Lords' consent. In the case of money bills (the main purpose of which relates to taxation or expenditure), the agreement of the Lords is not required at all, though in practice it is usually given.
Royal Approval
The monarch must assent to any legislation for it to enter into law, although it has been convention since the time of William and Mary that the monarch will assent to all legislation passed by Parliament. Queen Anne was the last monarch to refuse Royal Assent to a bill; she refused her approval to the Scotch Militia Bill in 1707.
History
The two distinct houses of parliament emerged in the 14th century. One was composed of shire and borough representatives, this became known as the Commons. The other was composed of religious leaders (Lords Spiritual) and magnates (Lords Temporal), this became known as the House of Lords.The 1707 Act of Union with Scotland and the 1801 Act of Union with Ireland entitled Scottish and Irish peers to elect representatives from among themselves to sit in the House of Lords. Elections for Irish representative peers ceased in 1922. From 1963 all Scottish peers had the right to sit in the House of Lords.
Until 1539, bishops, abbots, and priors were members of the Lords. As a result of the dissolution of the monasteries, from then on only the bishops attended. In 1847, following the creation of many new bishoprics, the Bishopric of Manchester Act limited the number of bishops in the Lords.
The Parliament Acts
After the election of 1906 the Liberal Party had a large majority in the House of Commons. Due to the naval race with Germany and new social programmes, the Liberal "peoples budget" of 1909 proposed tax increases and new taxes targeting wealthy landowners. These measures were unpopular in the conservative (and legislatively equal) House of Lords, where the budget was refused passage.The Liberals brought a complaint to the King, Edward VII who said he would intervene if they proved to have a mandate. The House of Commons called an election in 1910 and the Liberals were successfully reelected, though not by as large a margin as the previous election. Threatened with the appointment of 500 new peers if they refused, the Lords passed the Parliament Act. Under it, the House of Lords could only reject a proposal for up to two years, after which the Commons would automatically prevail. On August 10 1911, the Parliament Act 1911 came into effect, removing the equal status of the House of Lords and its effective power of veto.
The Parliament Act 1949 reduced the delaying power of the 1911 Act in respect of Public Bills other than Money Bills to two sessions and one year respectively, the exception being bills to extend the life of Parliament to beyond five years, in which case the Lords would have full power to defeat the bill.
The Life Peerages Act 1958
The Life Peerages Act 1958 permitted the creation of peerages for life, with no limit on numbers, to persons of either sex.
The Peerage Act 1963
The Peerage Act 1963 allowed hereditary peeresses and all Scottish peers to be members of the House, and allowed hereditary peerages to be disclaimed for life. The politician best known for disclaiming his inherited peerage is Tony Benn.
The House of Lords Act 1999
The act removed the right of most hereditary peers to sit and vote in the House. An amendment to the Bill enabled 92 hereditary peers to remain until the House was fully reformed. The 92 hereditary peers consisted of the Lord Great Chamberlain and the Earl Marshal (who perform certain ceremonial duties), 15 peers serving as 'office holders' elected by the whole house and 75 peers (2 Labour, 2 Liberal Democrat, 28 Cross Benchers and 42 Conservative, reflecting the traditionally conservative beliefs of the Lords) elected by peers of their respective parties. In addition on November 2, 1999 10 hereditary peers were given life peerages (six former Leaders of the House and four holders of peerages of the first creation). In March 2000 seven hereditary peers who had not been elected were included in a list of 33 new life peers and allowed to retake their seat in the Lords.
The Labour Party and the House of Lords
For many years the Labour Party in the United Kingdom advocated reform of the House of Lords, but this was obstructed by the House of Lords itself, whose members were mostly of the Conservative party. Most notorious were the so-called 'backwoodsmen', who never attended Parliament except to defeat important Labour legislation opposed by the Conservatives. Later the Labour party managed to extract another reform, the Parliament Act of 1949, which limited the power of the House of Lords to defeat House of Commons legislation.
In 1968, the Labour government of Harold Wilson attempted to remove hereditary peers from the House of Lords, but this was defeated by a combination of traditionalist Conservatives, such as Enoch Powell, and Labour MPs like Michael Foot, who advocated outright abolition of the upper house. This later became Labour party policy in the late 70s, but was dropped in favour of a reformed second chamber under Neil Kinnock.
Finally when Labour returned to power in 1997 under Tony Blair, legislation was introduced to remove hereditary peers, as the first step in the reform of the House. However, in order to get the law passed by the House of Lords, the Government had to compromise and allow 92 hereditary peers to remain until reform of the House was completed.
A free vote was held in the House of Commons in February 2003, in which MPs could vote for a fully elected second chamber, an entirely nominated one, a chamber with a mixture of elected and nominated members, or for outright abolition. However, the result proved inconclusive, as MPs proceeded to vote against each option in turn.
See also
- Introduction (House of Lords)
- Members of the House of Lords
- UK topics
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Jon Lord is a British Hammond organ and piano player.He was a member of Deep Purple and Whitesnake.
Famous works:
- Concerto for group and orchestra
- Sarabande
- Gemini Suite
- Pictured within.
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In feudalism, a lord (French: seigneur) is an aristocrat who claims dominion over a portion of land and the produce and labour of the serfs living thereon. They are normally hereditary and owed similar allegiance to the monarch. Generally, the word lord is applied to superiors of many kinds, e.g. landlord, and in many countries in Europe is used as a general title of address equivalent to the English "Mr": e.g. Signore, Herr.
The etymology of the English word "lord" goes back to Old English hlaf-weard (loaf-guardian) -- reflecting the Dark Age duty of a superior to provide food for his followers. The female equivalent is Lady, which might come from words meaning loaf-kneader.
"The Lord" (Hebrew Adonai, Greek Kyrios, Latin Dominus) is an epithet of Yahweh, the God of the Jews and Christians. "Our Lord" is also used as a name for Christ by Christians.
"Lord" is also a term used for the male God in Neopaganism.
In the United Kingdom, the hereditary lords were until recent years automatically members of the House of Lords, the upper house of Parliament. There are five ranks of peer, namely Duke, Marquess, Earl, Viscount, and Baron. The title is also applied by courtesy to certain of their children, e.g. the younger sons of dukes and marquesses are known as "Lord (firstname) (lastname)".
The title is used by senior judges: the Law Lords or "Lords of Appeal in Ordinary" who are life barons, judges of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, who are known as "Lords Justices of Appeal" and judges of the Scottish Court of Session who are known as "Lords of Council and Session";
Another English title is lord of the manor, which is not a peerage and does not carry parliamentary rights. The title merely indicates the owner of a manor who has certain local rights, and is not used socially.
See also: Lord Chancellor, Lord High Treasurer, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lord High Admiral, Lord High Constable, Lord Chamberlain, Lord President, Lord Privy Seal
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The saying "Jesus is Lord" serves as a statement of faith for millions of Christians who regard Jesus Christ as God (see Lord). It is the motto adopted by the World Council of Churches.Romans 14:9 says:
Romans 10:9 says:
- For this very reason, Christ died and returned to life so that he might be the Lord of both the dead and the living (NIV)
Christians who say "Jesus is Lord" are referring to this verse, which is a keystone of Bill Bright's Four Spiritual Laws.
- That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. (NIV)
Links
- Jesus Is Lord Church
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Synonyms: LordSynonyms: master (n), noble (n), nobleman (n), overlord (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: Lady (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deity | God, Lord, Jehovah, Jahweh, Allah; The Almighty, The Supreme Being, The First Cause, the Prime Mover; Ens Entium; Author of all things, Creator of all things; Author of our being; Cosmoplast; El; The Infinite, The Eternal; The All-powerful, The All-wise, The All-merciful, The All-holy. |
Master | Noun: master, padrone; lord, lord paramount; commander, commandant; captain; chief, chieftain; sirdar, sachem, sheik, head, senior, governor, ruler, dictator; leader; (director); boss,Noun: master, padrone; lord, lord paramount; commander, commandant; captain; chief, chieftain; sirdar, sachem, sheik, head, senior, governor, ruler, dictator; leader; (director); boss, cockarouse, sagamore, werowance. |
Nobility | Peer, peerage; house of lords, house of peers; lords, lords temporal and spiritual; noblesse; noble, nobleman; lord, lordling; grandee, magnifico, hidalgo; daimio, daimyo, samurai, shizoku; don, donship; aristocrat, swell, three-tailed bashaw; gentleman, squire, squireen, patrician, laureate. |
Possessor | Owner; proprietor, proprietress, proprietary; impropriator, master, mistress, lord. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Lord |
| English words defined with "Lord": Lord Chief Justice of England, Lord lieutenant ♦ mesne lord ♦ The lord chamberlain of England, Treasury lord. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Lord": Anglantes Lord ♦ Cotton Lord ♦ Lord Fanny, Lord Foppington, lord high fixer, Lord Lovel, Lord Mayor's Day, Lord of Creation. Man, Lord of the Isles, Lord Peter, Lord Strutt, Lord Thomas, Lord, Lady ♦ Shepherd Lord. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Lord": Zany. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Lord" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (Lord), Dutch (lord), French (Lord), German (lord, milord), Hungarian (lord), Italian (Lord), Occitan (dirty), Romanian (Lord), Serbo-Croatian (lord), Spanish (Lord), Swedish (Lord), Turkish (Lord, peer). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Got to love the Lord for making things like that (A Time to Kill; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman) I wouldn't be in your shoes if the Sweet Lord Jesus come down and asked me himself (Driving Miss Daisy; writing credit: Alfred Uhry) Fill a man full o' lead, stick him in the ground an' then read words on him. Why, when you've killed a man, why try to read the Lord in as a partner on the job (Red River; writing credit: Borden Chase) Praise the Lord, the South has risen again (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox) And remember, the Lord loves a working man. (The Jerk; writing credit: Carl Reiner, written by Steve Martin and Carl Gottlieb.) | |
Lyrics | Oh My Lord (Mary's Boy Child/Oh My Lord; performing artist: Boney M) I got ta thank tha Lord that ya maaaade me (Dear Mama; performing artist: 2Pac) Can't be the money Lord knows I'm always broke ("My Home's in Alabama"; performing artist: Alabama) Lord, them Delta women think the world of me. ("Ramblin' Man"; performing artist: Allman Brothers Band) Shorty in down, good Lord (No Diggity; performing artist: Blackstreet) | |
Clever | Sometimes the Lord calms the storm. (references; author: unknown) I am not religious; I just love the Lord. (references; author: unknown) The Lord loves a cheerful giver. He also accepts from a grouch. (references; author: unknown) Lord, may others treat me tomorrow as I have treated them today. (references; author: unknown) Lord, be merciful, shut me up when my life speaks so much louder than my words. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Der Lord von Barmbeck (1973) Lord Byron (1970) Le Crime de Lord Arthur Saville (1968) Lord Mountbatten: A Man for the Century (1968) Der Junge Lord (1968) | |
Song Titles | I Guess The Lord Must Be In New York City (performing artist: Richard Barone) My Sweet Lord (performing artist: George Harrison) | |
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 | Thomson piano wire sounding machine as mounted on USS TUSCARORA This machine was invented by Sir William Thomson, a.k.a. Lord Kelvin Made use of heavy weight and piano wire - line paid out until weight hit bottom This machine revolutionized deepsea sounding Variations would be used for over 50 years. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Piano-wire sounding maching developed by Sir William Thomson, later Lord Kelvin. This machine was used by George Belknap to sound from the U. S. S. TUSCARORA in a cable survey across the North Pacific. He shipped it to Charles Sigsbee on the C&GS Steamer BLAKE who modified the machine to become the Sigsbee Sounding Machine. In: "150 Years of Service on the Seas ...." Call No.GC29.2.U5 P5. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Figure 1. Cavendish thermometer. Beginning in 1757 Lord Charles Cavendish, vice-president of the Royal Society, invented and described a number of thermome ters utilizing the principle of the dilatation of liquid. One of these was a " minimum" thermometer used to retain the minimum temperature observed. The liquid used was alcohol. It was first used by John Phipps on the RACEHORSE in 1773. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | William Thompson, Lord Kelvin;1897;{28.021/3}. |
 | ... Ah Lord, what mean you by this strange discourse! / [John Collier] Thos. Sanders sculp. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Lord Kelvin. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Photograph taken circa 1942-43. He is credited with originating the phrase "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition" while encouraging sailors in action during the Pearl Harbor attack, 7 December 1941. Soon thereafter, it became the title and theme of a popular song. Credit: NAVY. |  | Harry Lord. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Bris Lord. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Black Douglas and Lord Ashley shaking hands. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Where i see the Lord 5" by Petey Osi Commentary: "Taking pictures everywhere!." | "My saviour" by Brendan Paxton Commentary: "My lord and saviour, Jesus Christ." |
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 | Hallelujah; choir; church; chapel; religion; religious; praise; joy; lord; god; worship. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Charles Dickens | Lord, keep my memory green. |
Lord Alfred Tennyson | Faith lives in honest doubt. |
| Authority forgets a dying king. | |
| A day may sink or save a realm. | |
Lord Byron | Critics are already made. |
| That low vice, curiosity! | |
| Think not I am what I appear. | |
| Ready money is Aladdin's lamp. | |
Lord Mansfield | God help the patient. |
St. Thomas Aquinas | Lord Jesu, blessed Pelican. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | We will not by reason of any small serjeancy which anyone may hold of us by the service of rendering to us knives, arrows, or the like, have wardship of his heir or of the land which he holds of another lord by knight's service. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | The Lord the Judge (says he) be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon, Judg. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | And here I speak particularly of the myriad cottage or apartment homes where the wage-earner strives amid the accidents and difficulties of life to guard his wife and children from privation and bring the family up in the fear of the Lord, or upon ethical conceptions which often play their potent part. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1903) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Lord of the earth and sea, he bends a slave, And woman, lovely woman, reigns alone |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | The Lord Chancellor recovered himself with a great effort, and pointed to the open window |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In ordinary times, to disperse an anachronism and cause it to vanish, one has only to make it spell the year of our Lord. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | God is still the merciful Lord Who wishes not the eternal death of the sinner but rather that he be converted and live |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | We are, my lord, and come to have the warrant, That we may be admitted where he is. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | I pray the Lord my soul to keep |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | The Hurgo (for so they call a great lord, as I afterwards learned) understood me very well |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The Lord had made him so, yet he supposed the Lord cared as much for him as for another |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare | Lord, what fools these mortals be |
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Economic History | Zimbabwe | On December 12, British Governor Lord Christopher Soames arrived in Salisbury to reassert British authority over the colony. (references) |
Andorra | In the 11th century, fearing military action by neighboring lords, the bishop placed himself under the protection of the Lord of Caboet, a Spanish nobleman. (references) | |
Andorra | Later, the Count of Foix, a French noble, became heir to Lord Caboet through marriage, and a dispute arose between the French Count and the Spanish bishop over Andorra. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex. The Maker, at Creation's birth, With living things had stocked the earth. From elephants to bats and snails, They all were good, for all were males. But when the Devil came and saw He said: "By Thine eternal law Of growth, maturity, decay, These all must quickly pass away And leave untenanted the earth Unless Thou dost establish birth" -- Then tucked his head beneath his wing To laugh -- he had no sleeve -- the thing With deviltry did so accord, That he'd suggested to the Lord. The Master pondered this advice, Then shook and threw the fateful dice Wherewith all matters here below Are ordered, and observed the throw; Then bent His head in awful state, Confirming the decree of Fate. From every part of earth anew The conscious dust consenting flew, While rivers from their courses rolled To make it plastic for the mould. Enough collected (but no more, For niggard Nature hoards her store) He kneaded it to flexible clay, While Nick unseen threw some away. And then the various forms He cast, Gross organs first and finer last; No one at once evolved, but all By even touches grew and small Degrees advanced, till, shade by shade, To match all living things He'd made Females, complete in all their parts Except (His clay gave out) the hearts. "No matter," Satan cried; "with speed I'll fetch the very hearts they need" -- So flew away and soon brought back The number needed, in a sack. That night earth range with sounds of strife -- Ten million males each had a wife; That night sweet Peace her pinions spread O'er Hell -- ten million devils dead! G.J. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Art Linkletter | Time heals it. And for the first year or two, you burst into tears at times when you run into a reminder of it, and then the Lord kind of heals you. |
David Berkowitz | Bad thoughts or sinful thoughts come to everyone. But the Bible says that God makes a way of escape when someone has a bad thought, they can call on the Lord and the Lord will deliver them from that. |
Glen Campbell | Yeah. Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord. I remembered that from when I was a kid, and I said, whatever happens will happen. I won't be a part of it. |
James Dobson | Well, I have confidence in the Lord. I have confidence in God and in my Lord, Jesus Christ, and I believe that he has the answers even when I don't and he told us to trust him even when we can't track him. |
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| "Lord" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 78.50% of the time. "Lord" is used about 14,276 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 78.5% | 11,206 | 829 |
| Noun (singular) | 20.83% | 2,974 | 3,146 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.47% | 67 | 40,952 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.2% | 28 | 65,706 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14,276 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "Lord" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Lord | Last name | 10,000 | 1,268 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "Lord". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Avia | N/A | N/A | The Lord is my father |
| Azarias | N/A | N/A | He that hears the Lord |
| Malone | N/A | N/A | The grace or mercy of the Lord |
| Tovia | N/A | N/A | The Lord is good |
| Urias | N/A | N/A | The Lord is my light or fire |
| Zephania | N/A | N/A | The Lord is my secret |
| Abiah | N/A | Biblical | The Lord is my father |
| Abijah | N/A | Biblical | The Lord is my father |
| Adaiah | N/A | Biblical | The witness of the Lord |
| Addon | N/A | Biblical | The Lord |
| Adiel | N/A | Biblical | The witness of the Lord |
| Adoni-bezek | N/A | Biblical | The Lord of lightning |
| Adoni-bezek | N/A | Biblical | The lightning of the Lord |
| Adonijah | N/A | Biblical | The Lord is my master |
| Adonikam | N/A | Biblical | The Lord is raised |
| Adoniram | N/A | Biblical | My Lord is most high |
| Adoniram | N/A | Biblical | Lord of might and elevation |
| Adoni-zedek | N/A | Biblical | Justice of the Lord |
| Adoni-zedek | N/A | Biblical | Lord of justice |
| Ahaziah | N/A | Biblical | Vision of the Lord |
| Ahiah | N/A | Biblical | Brother of the Lord |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references.
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| Chile | Editorial Lord Cochrane S.A. | USA | Galey & Lord Incorporated |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "Lord": a press lord ♦ Alfred Lord Tennyson ♦ ascension of the Lord ♦ Congregation of the Lord ♦ drunk as a lord ♦ epiphany of Our Lord ♦ fear of the Lord the ♦ feudal lord ♦ first lord of the admiralty ♦ first Lord of the Treasury ♦ Harvest lord ♦ in the year of our lord ♦ labor for smb.'s feudal lord ♦ law lord ♦ liege lord ♦ little Lord Fauntleroy ♦ live a lord ♦ live like a lord ♦ Lord advocate ♦ Lord Bacon ♦ Lord Byron ♦ lord chamber ♦ lord chamberlain ♦ lord chamberlain's office ♦ lord chancellor ♦ Lord Chief Justice of England ♦ lord heart ♦ Lord High Admiral ♦ Lord High Chancellor ♦ Lord high chancellor of England ♦ Lord high constable ♦ lord high fixer ♦ Lord high steward ♦ Lord high treasurer of England ♦ lord in waiting ♦ lord it ♦ lord it over ♦ lord it over him ♦ Lord justice clerk ♦ Lord justice general ♦ Lord keeper ♦ Lord lieutenant ♦ lord lieutenant of a county ♦ lord lieutenant of Ireland ♦ lord mayor ♦ lord of a castle ♦ lord of lords ♦ Lord of Misrule ♦ Lord of the ascendant ♦ lord of the manor ♦ Lord paramount ♦ Lord president ♦ Lord Privy Seal ♦ Lord protect me from my friends ♦ Lord Protector ♦ lord provost ♦ Lord Rayleigh ♦ lord rector ♦ mesne lord ♦ mother of our lord ♦ my lord ♦ our lord ♦ press lord ♦ rich lord family ♦ risen lord ♦ sea lord ♦ servant of the lord ♦ The court of the Lord ♦ the lord ♦ The lord chamberlain of England ♦ the Lord knows ♦ the risen lord ♦ Treasury lord. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Lord": Lord-alge, lord-almighty, Lord-a-mercy, lord-and-master, Lord-justice, lord-lieutenancy, Lord-lieutenant, lord-like, lord-of-the-manor. | |
Ending with "Lord": ex-lord. | |
Containing "Lord": Vice-lord-lieutenant. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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| Language | Translations for "Lord"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | Mnr. (gentleman, Mister, Mr., sir), Meneer (gentleman, Mister, Mr., sir), heer (gentleman, Mister, Mr., sir). (various references) | |
Albanian | Zotëri (cavalier, Don, gentleman, honor, honour, milord, Mister, Sir, thane), Zot (creator, Dan, demiurge, divinity, Don, God, godhead, heaven, manager, master, Monsieur, mynheer, overlord, Sahib), Njerëzi (civility, comity, courtesy, courtliness, decency, humanity, mankind, people, politeness, public, world), Feudal (feudal, feudal lord, feudalist, suzerain), Burrë (chap, fellow, husband, Jack, lad, male, man, mate, men, Mister, my better half), Anëtar I Dhomës Së Lordëve. (various references) | |
Arabic | رب (master, owner), مولى (chief), مسيح, النبيل (baron, blue blood, noble, nobleman, peer), اللورد, السيد (gentleman, master, seiner), الرب (god), أمير (emir, prince), أسقف في الكنيسة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Повелител, Пер (Baron), Крал, Мъж, Титулувам Лорд, Лорд (Baron), Давам Титла Лорд, Господар (Sahib), Господ, Владетел, Бог (God), Индустриален Магнат, Съпруг, Стопанин. (various references) | |
Catalan | senyor (gentleman, Mister, Mr., sir). (various references) | |
Chinese | 霸 (feudal chief, hegemon, master, rhenium, rule by force, tyrant, usurp), 貴族 (nobility, nobleman), 阁下 (Excellencies, Excellency), 洛德 , 君 (gentleman, monarch, ruler), 主 (master, primary, to host, to own). (various references) | |
Czech | Lord, Pán (gent, gentleman, master, Mister, overlord, sirrah), Milostpán, mùj ty bože (good god, good grief, good lord). (various references) | |
Danish | herre (gentleman, Mister, Mr., sir), herr (gentleman, Mister, Mr., sir). (various references) | |
Dutch | lord. (various references) | |
Esperanto | lordo, sinjoro (gentleman, Mister, Mr., sir). (various references) | |
Faeroese | harri (gentleman, Mr.), harra (gentleman, Mr.). (various references) | |
Farsi | فرمانروا (Ruler), ملاک (Criterion, Document, Evidence, Landlord, Landowner, Proprietor), مانندلردرفتارکردن , مالک (Angel, Have, Landlord, Owner, Possessor, Proprietor), لرد (Sir), حکمرواءی کردن , عنوان لردی دادن به , صاحب (Padrone), خداوندگار (God, Overlord), خداوند (God), ارباب (Boss, Esquire, Master, Overlord, Padrone, Squire), شاهزاده (Prince). (various references) | |
Finnish | herra (gentleman, man, master, Mr, Mr., Sir). (various references) | |
French | monsieur. (various references) | |
Frisian | mynhear (gentleman, Mr.), hear (army, gentleman, Mr.). (various references) | |
German | Gebieter (arbiter, commander, master), Lord (milord), Herr (arbiter, boss, chief, gent, gentleman, leader, master, mister, mr, mr., ruler, signor, Sir). (various references) | |
Greek | άρχων (archon, liege, sire, squire, suzerain), άρχοντασ (grandee, liege, magistrate, magnate, master, sire, squire, suzerain), άρχοντας, λόρδος, αφέντης (master), Λόρδοσ, Αυθέντησ, Θεόσ (God), ίύριοσ (Cardinal, Don, Mister, Monsieur, Senor, Signior, Signor, Sir). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ֲביר, ְיל, ְדון (Sir), ְציל, ֱעל, ״בון. (various references) | |
Hungarian | lord, fejedelem (monarch, prince, rajah), úr (baboo, esq., esquire, gentleman, gentlemen, lord god of hosts, master, master card, mr., sahib, sirrah, to master). (various references) | |
Icelandic | herra (gentleman, Mister, Mr., sir). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ustadz (master), ustad (master, schoolmaster, teacher), tuhan (deity, god), tuan (gentleman, mister), raja (czar, king, monarch, royal). (various references) | |
Italian | signore (esquire, gentleman, gentleman s, ladies, liege, madams, man, Mister, mr, Mr., signor, sir). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ロート油 (aerial tram, load, lowbrow, low-fat, low-heeled shoes, low-necked collar, Rhode Island, rhododendron, road, road game, road holding, road map, road mirror, road race, road test, road work, roadracer, roadshow, robe, robe decolletee, roman, rope, ropeway, Turkey red oil), 侯 (daimyo, marquis), 公 (companion, daimyo, duke, formal, governmental, official, open, prince, public, subordinate), 尊 (exalted, further, furthermore, greater, less, more, noble, precious, priceless, prince, sacred, still, still more, valuable, words of a ruler, yet), 天帝 (Creator, God, Heavenly King), 命 (command, decree, destiny, life, prince, words of a ruler), 卿 (state minister), 上帝 (Creator, God, Shangti, the Supreme Being), 上 (a superior, aboard a ship or vehicle, above, after, as a matter of, as far as ... is concerned, authority, besides, best, emperor, far better, first volume, from the standpoint of, going up, government, governmental, head, high class, higher, imperial, influence of, my dear, on top of, outer, over, presenting, shogun, showing, sovereign, summit, superior, superior quality, surface, the above, top, up, upon, upper, upper part, upper part of the body, upper stream, upward), 主君 (master), 主 (chief, employer, god, head, host, important, landlord, lover, main, master, one's husband, owner, principal). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ロード (load, road), しゅくん (master, meritorious deeds), しゅ (actor, kind, master, species, supporting post, tumor, variety), きみ (companion, daimyo, duke, egg yolk, feeling, prince, public, sensation, subordinate, you), うえ (above, after, as far as ... is concerned, authority, besides, emperor, far better, higher, hunger, influence of, my dear, on top of, over, shogun, sovereign, starvation, summit, superior, surface, up, upon, upper part), こう (10^38, 1st in rank, 7th in rank, be bent, benefit, body cavity, boorish, box, clause, companion, compare with, daimyo, duke, effect, efficacy, efficiency, entertainment, female phoenix bird, filial piety, first sign of the Chinese calendar, grade A, happiness, head, height, hill, hundred sextillion, hundred undecillion, incense, instep, interest, item, knoll, long ages, luck, main, manuscript, marquis, paragraph, pleasure, prince, proof, public, result, rising ground, same kind, -school, season, sentence, seventh sign of the Chinese calendar, shell, subordinate, success, such, this, threat, thus, to ask, to be in love, to invite, to request, urgent, verbal pause, version, weather), けい (about, approximately, beheading, group, incline, knight, lean, light, lineage, penalty, plan, punishment, sentence, state minister, strong, system, ten quadrillion, thorn, thousand billion, time, toward, whip), じょうてい (Creator, departure on a journey, God, introducing, presentation, Shangti, the Supreme Being), みこと (prince, the spoken words of the emperor or a noble, words of a ruler), てんてい (a line, bound together, Creator, God, Heavenly King, nadir). (various references) | |
Korean | 주 (Note, Notes, Week). (various references) | |
Lombard | scior (gentleman, Mr.). (various references) | |
Manx | chiarn (laird, peer). (various references) | |
Norwegian | herre (gentleman, Mr.), herr (gentleman, Mister, Mr., sir). (various references) | |
Papiamen | señor (gentleman, Mister, Mr., sir, thou, ye, you), mener (gentleman, Mister, Mr., sir, thou, ye, you), kabayero (gentleman, Mr.). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ordlay.(various references) | |
Polish | pan (gentleman, Mr., thou, ye, you). (various references) | |
Portuguese | senhor (baboo, boss, compere, gentleman, man, master, mister, mr., paramount, sir, you), amo (boss, gentleman, love, master, Mister, Mr., sir). (various references) | |
Romanian | Lord, Stãpân (employer, husband, king, master, owner, proprietor, sovereign), Senior (major, nobleman, senior), Rege (king, monarch, padishah, prince), Proprietar (holder, landlord, master, owner, proprietor), Posesor (holder, owner, possessor), Magnat (king, magnate, tycoon), Dumnezeu (God, master), domnul (gentleman, master, Mister, Mr.), Domn (Don, gentleman, king, master, owner, prince, Sir), doamne dumnezeule (good gracious), Conferi Titlul De Lord, Boiernaş (country square, gent), Boier (boyar, chief, gentleman, governor, nobleman). (various references) | |
Russian | Пэр Англии, лорд, Лорд, Господь Бог, Господь, Господин (Dan, Mister, Sir), Владыка. (various references) | |
Scottish | triath (chief), tighearn , tighearna, sionadh. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | lord, gospodar (dynast, liege, master, overman, sahib, sovereign), gospod bog. (various references) | |
Spanish | señor (conqueror, despot, Don, esq., esquire, gent, gentleman, lordship, man, master, Mister, Mr., overlord, seigneur, sir, vassal), caballero (cavalier, cavalryman, Chevalier, doberman, gent, gentleman, knight, Mister, Mr., rider, Sir, sportsman). (various references) | |
Sranan | masra (boss, chief, gentleman, husband, leader, master). (various references) | |
Swahili | bwana (boss, gentleman, master, Mr., sir). (various references) | |
Swedish | Herre (gentleman, master, Mr., Sahib, you), Lord. (various references) | |
Thai | เจ้าของที่ดิน (laird), พระเยซูคริสต์, ผู้ทรงอิทธิพลในอาชีพ, ขุนนาง (nobleman), มีอำนาจหรืออิทธิพลเหนือ. (various references) | |
Turkish | Bey (Ace, Bey, Don, esquire, gentleman, governor, Mister, Monsieur, mr, mr., Sahib, seigneur, squire, the governor). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | Пан (Esq, Sir), Лорд, Давати Титул Лорда, Господар, Володар. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | Thiên chúa ngài, người có chức tước lớn, chúa tể (overlord), chủ đề (matter, subject, topic). (various references) | |
Welsh | udd, rhi (king), muner, glyw (governor), cun, arglwydd (baron). (various references) | |
Yucatec | yuum (gentleman). (various references) | |
Zulu | umnumzane (gentleman, Mr.), ubaba (father, gentleman, Mr.). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | en, nin. (various references) |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | despotes, tyrannos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | arbiter, arbitris, arbitros, domine, domini, dominis, domino, dominorum, dominos, dominum, dominus, dominus domno, erus, senior, tyrannus. (various references) |
| Avestan | 200-600 | |
| Old English | 450-1100 | drihten, frea, freadryhten, goldgiefa, goldwine, heorra, hlaford. (various references) |
| Medieval Latin | 700-1500 | patronus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 14, Verse 26 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | En fobw kuriou elpiV iscuoV toiV de teknoiV autou kataleipei ereisma |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | In timore Domini fiducia fortitudinis et filiis eius erit spes |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | In the drede of the Lord trost of strengthe; and to the sones of hym shal ben hope. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | For him in whose heart is the fear of the Lord there is strong hope: and his children will have a safe place. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 14, Verse 26 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Diha sa pagkahadlok kang Jehova mao ang malig-on nga pagsalig; Ug ang iyang mga anak adunay usa ka dapit nga dalangpanan. |
| Croatian | U strahu je Gospodnjem veliko pouzdanje i njegovim je sinovima utoèište. |
| Danish | Den stærkes Tillid er HERRENs Frygt, hans Sønner skal have en Tilflugt. |
| Dutch | In de vreze des HEEREN is een sterk vertrouwen, en Hij zal Zijn kinderen een Toevlucht wezen. |
| Finnish | Herran pelossa on vahva varmuus ja turva vielä lapsillekin. |
| French | Celui qui craint l`Éternel possède un appui ferme, Et ses enfants ont un refuge auprès de lui. |
| German | Wer den HERRN fürchtet, der hat eine sichere Festung, und seine Kinder werden auch beschirmt. |
| Hungarian | Az Úrnak félelmében erõs a bizodalom, és az õ fiainak lesz menedéke. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Orang yang takwa kepada TUHAN menjadi tentram, dan keluarganya akan mempunyai perlindungan. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Bahwa takut akan Tuhan itulah umpama suatu kubu yang teguh, maka Iapun suatu perlindungan bagi segala orang yang lari kepadanya. |
| Italian | Nel timore del Signore è la fiducia del forte; per i suoi figli egli sarà un rifugio. |
| Maori | ¶ U tonu, kaha tonu te whakaaro ina wehi ki a Ihowa; ka whai rerenga atu ano hoki ana tamariki. |
| Norwegian | Den som frykter Herren, har et sterkt vern, og for hans barn skal Herren være en tilflukt. |
| Portuguese | No temor do Senhor há firme confiança; e os seus filhos terão um lugar de refúgio. |
| Rumanian | Cine se teme de Domnul are un sprijin tare kn El, wi copiii lui au un loc de adqpost la El. - |
| Russian | ч УФТБИЕ РТЕД зПУРПДПН--ОБДЕЦДБ ФЧЕТДБС, Й УЩОБН уЧПЙН пО РТЙВЕЦЙЭЕ. |
| Spanish | En el temor de Jehovah está la confianza del hombre fuerte, y para sus hijos habrá un refugio. |
| Swedish | Den som fruktar HERREN har ett tryggt fäste, och hans barn få där en tillflykt. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Lord": lorded, lording, lordings, lordless, lordlier, lordliest, lordlike, lordliness, lordlinesses, lordling, lordlings, lordly, lordoma, lordomas, lordoses, lordosis, lordotic, lords, lordship, lordships. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "Lord": landlord, milord, overlord, slumlord, warlord. (additional references) | |
Words containing "Lord": bachelordom, bachelordoms, chlordan, chlordane, chlordanes, chlordans, chlordiazepoxide, chlordiazepoxides, landlordism, landlordisms, landlords, milords, overlorded, overlording, overlords, overlordship, overlordships, slumlords, warlordism, warlordisms, warlords. (additional references) | |
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"Lord" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dord, glort, jord, kord, lardo, larf, larod, larx, Ledro, lerd, lerv, lirj, lirr, Lladro, Lledr, Lloreda, loard, lod, lodd, loddy, lodz, Lohr, loid, lokri, lolr, lood, loor, lor, lora, lorde, lordy, lored, lorid, lork, loro, lorq, Lors, Lort, lorz, lotd, lotr, Lourd, Lovro, loyd, Lrda, lurb, lurd, lurud, lurv, mord, Noord, olr, oord, vord. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Lord" (pronounced lô"rd) |
| 4 | l ô" r d | deplored, explored, floored, implored, unexplored. |
| 3 | -ô" r d | accord, abhorred, aboard, adored, afford, award, board, bored, chord, cord, fjord, Ford, gored, gourd, hoard, horde, ignored, oared, outscored, pored, poured, prerecord, reboard, record, restored, reward, roared, scored, shored, soared, stored, sword, toward, underscored, untoward, ward. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-l-o-r" | |
-1 letter: dol, dor, old, rod. | |
-2 letters: do, lo, od, or. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-l-o-r" | |
+1 letter: dolor, droll, drool, lords, older, world. | |
+2 letters: bolder, bordel, colder, dollar, dolors, dolour, dorsal, dorsel, dourly, drolls, drolly, drools, drylot, florid, folder, golder, holard, holder, ladron, lardon, loader, lodger, lorded, lordly, louder, loured, milord, molder, ordeal, polder, refold, reload, remold, resold, retold, roiled, rolfed, rolled, rondel, solder, weldor, worlds, yodler. | |
+3 letters: armload, bedroll, blonder, bollard, boodler, bordels, boulder, bowlder, broadly, broiled, caldron, carload, caroled, chlorid, chordal, cloured, clowder, coddler, collard, colored, cordial, dariole, decolor, delator, deplore, dilator, dilutor, dipolar, doggrel, dollars, dolours, doodler, dorsals, dorsels, dottrel, doubler, drolled, droller, drooled, droplet, drylots, earldom, flooder, floored, floured, fluorid, folders, fondler, foulard, gloried, godlier, goldarn, goldurn, goliard, growled, holards, holders, jarldom, kilorad, labored, labroid, ladrone, ladrons, lardons, lardoon, leopard, leotard, leporid, loaders, lodgers, lording, lordoma, louvred, lowbred, lowered, malodor, milords, modeler, modular, molders, moldier, moulder, nodular, norland, odorful, oilbird, oldster, ordeals, orderly, ordinal, paroled, pledgor, plodder, polders, pollard, poulard, premold, presold, proudly, prowled, redpoll, reflood, refolds, reloads, remodel, remolds, reoiled, resoled, rodless, rodlike, rondels, roulade, roundel, roundly, rowdily, roweled, scolder, smolder, solders, soldier, solider, sudoral, telford, toddler, trifold, troland, trolled, urodele, warlord, weldors, whorled, wordily, worldly, yodeler, yodlers. | |
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