highness
IPA: hˈaɪnʌs
noun
- The state of being high.
- A title of respect when referring to a prince or princess.
- The style of a prince, princess or someone of equivalent rank.
- (obsolete) The style of an emperor or king.
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Examples of "highness" in Sentences
- "Your highness is in his twenty-second year," replied he.
- Other sovereigns were called your highness, your serenity, your grace.
- France returned bearing orders to put his so-called highness in confinement.
- Since your highness is a field marshal, I'm not sure who your superiors are, exactly ...
- It is of little consequence for one man to be called his highness and another his holiness, but it is hard for me to be the servant of another.
- But long after him the term highness was applied to kings of France; and some letters to Henry III. are still extant in which he is addressed by that title.
- If his royal highness is soooo good without a teleprompter and pledged trensparency, why not allow the comittee meetings on the health care bills be braodcast on CSPAN?
- Following Bismarck's lead, both of them had dropped the pretence of calling me "highness" -- Bersonin's "theory", as Bismarck had called it, being well enough in my training period, I suppose, but now considered unnecessary.
- Distressed Duenna, on whose behalf I bear a message to your highness, which is that your magnificence will be pleased to grant her leave and permission to come and tell you her trouble, which is one of the strangest and most wonderful that the mind most familiar with trouble in the world could have imagined; but first she desires to know if the valiant and never vanquished knight, Don
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