lordling

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lord·ling

 (lôrd′lĭng)
n.
A lord regarded as immature or insignificant.
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lordling

(ˈlɔːdlɪŋ) or

lordkin

n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) rare a young lord
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lord•ling

(ˈlɔrd lɪŋ)

n.
a minor, unimportant, or petty lord.
[1225–75]
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Who doubts that your lordlings may have their 'distinctive cast of form and features' as much as we shire tradesmen have ours?
All hail to the lordlings of high degree, Who live not more happy, though greater than we!
See how the lordlings come to make game of the village girls now, as if we here could not chaff as well as themselves.
By Saint Dunstan, Saint Alfred, Saint Withold, and all the good men in the Saxon calendar, it doth make me mad to see such gay lordlings from over the sea go stepping on the necks of good Saxons who owned this land before ever their great-grandsires chewed rind of brawn!
"You lordlings are not accustomed to hear the truth," Summerlee answered with a bitter smile.
"What are you shoving for, young lordling? Don't you see we're all standing still?
Thus, at eighteen, we find him, an English lordling, who could speak no English, and yet who could read and write his native language.
Stand down." He called up the competing lordling again, and asked: "What was the rank and condition of the great-grandmother who con- ferred British nobility upon your great house?"
Tarzan and Taug took to the trees together, the shaggy coat of the fierce ape brushing the sleek skin of the English lordling as they passed through the primeval jungle side by side.
Inheritance by right of birth must be no more: the bounty of the land must be won through the nobility of work: 'Then be it known that we who've sown / Shall reap the fruits we swear it!' Landlords are 'despots' and 'lazy lordlings' who must now 'weave or delve or row the boat / Ye shall--or out we'll drive you!' By the poem's last stanza.
The Lordlings of Worship and Their Catastrophic Mindrides.
If our proud lordlings, progressives and neocons both, were better students of history than they are, they would see that their practice of overreaching, in order to advance what they think is good for us, is the very mentality that the Constitution was designed to frustrate and thwart.