year of our Lord

Noun

Meaning

(Christianity) A year of the Common Era/Christian Era; anno Domini; numbered from the once estimated first year for the birth of Jesus Christ.

(in secular usage, humorous) Used to emphasize the current year.
buying CDs in the year of our Lord 2023

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

christmas Common Era A.D. anno domini Christian Era ad AC a.c. ce year of grace

Antonyms

BCE B.C. B.C.E. AC a.c. bc

Examples

IN WITNESS THEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this nineteenth day of February in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred seventy-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundredth. Gerald Ford

Mr. Cruncher... 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. Charles Dickens

These Revelations were shewed to a simple creature unlettered, the year of our Lord 1373, the Thirteenth day of May. Julian of Norwich

I give all my printed books to Samuel Peach, son of Samuel Peach, in my Will named, and desire that this may be a codicil to my last Will and Testament, and taken as part thereof, as witness my hand, this third day of December. in the year of our Lord 1761. James Bradley

Close letter words and terms

year in, year out year mark year of grace year of schooling year of study year of the Lord