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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Alternative form of drighten.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative, historical
Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences
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name
The Lord, God the Father.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: Christianity
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name
Jesus Christ, God the Son.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
Topics: Christianity
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noun
A lord; ruler; sovereign; chief; leader; prince.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Norse, historical
Qualifier: Anglo-Saxon; paganism or puristic; otherwise obsolete; Anglo-Saxon; paganism or puristic; otherwise obsolete
Topics: fantasy, human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences
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noun
The Lord; Lord God; Christ.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: capitalized, obsolete, usually
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History
See drighten.
Borrowed from Middle English drighte, drightin and its etymon Old English dryhten (“a ruler, king, lord, prince, the supreme ruler, the Lord, God, Christ”), from Proto-West Germanic *druhtin, from Proto-Germanic *druhtinaz (“leader, chief, lord”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhrewgh- (“to hold, hold fast, support”). Cognate with Old Frisian drochten (“lord”), Old Saxon drohtin (“lord”), Old High German truhtin, Middle High German truhten, trohten (“ruler, lord”) (obsolete German Trechtin, Trechtein (“lord, God”)), Danish drot (“king”), Swedish drott (“king, ruler, sovereign”), Icelandic dróttinn (“hero, ruler, lord”), Finnish ruhtinas (“sovereign prince”). Related also to Old English dryht (“troop, army”), Old English ġedryht (“troop, body of men”), Old English drēogan (“to serve in the military, endure”). More at dree. By surface analysis, dright (“army, host”) + -en.
