Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The quality or condition of being high.
- n. Used with His, Her, or Your as a title and form of address for a prince or princess: Her Royal Highness the Princess Margaret.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of being high, in any of the senses of that word.
- n. A title of honor given to princes of the blood; also, in some German states, a title given to the reigning dukes or grand dukes and their heirs apparent: used with a possessive pronoun, his, her, your: as, his royal highness; her imperial highness.
Wiktionary
- n. the state of being high
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The state of being high; elevation; loftiness.
- n. A title of honor given to kings, princes, or other persons of rank.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the quality of being high or lofty
- n. (Your Highness or His Highness or Her Highness) title used to address a royal person
- n. a high degree (of amount or force etc.)
Examples
“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?”
“Your highness is in his twenty-second year," replied he.”
“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.”
“Since your highness is a field marshal, I'm not sure who your superiors are, exactly ...”
“Other sovereigns were called your highness, your serenity, your grace.”
“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.”
“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”
“France returned bearing orders to put his so-called highness in confinement.”
“But your highness is the only person, added he, that can cure her effectually, and therefore it were no matter how soon you set about it.”
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
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The Pain of Texting
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Hi, you!
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