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year of our lord

a. (context archaic or religious English) Of the Common Era/Christian Era; anno Domini; numbered from the once estimated first year for the birth of Jesus Christ. alt. (context archaic or religious English) Of the Common Era/Christian Era; anno Domini; numbered from the once estimated first year for the birth of Jesus Christ.

Usage examples of "year of our lord".

And who among the company at Monseigneur's reception in that seventeen hundred and eightieth year of our Lord, could possibly doubt that a system rooted in a frizzled hangman, powdered, gold-laced, pumped, and white-silk stockinged, would see the very stars out!

Cruncher himself always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it.

Ferrara stood between too many enemies in the shifting morass of Italian politics in the year of our Lord 1537.

Not that much example was needed for Germans of the year of our Lord, 1933.

Now when Shamus Gallagher opened his public house in the Year of Our Lord 1842, with his good wife, Meg, beside him, the whiskey might have come cheaper.