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Highness   /hˈaɪnəs/   Listen
Highness

noun
1.
(Your Highness or His Highness or Her Highness) title used to address a royal person.
2.
The quality of being high or lofty.  Synonym: loftiness.
3.
A high degree (of amount or force etc.).





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"Highness" Quotes from Famous Books



... As it was, I took you for a Turk—Solyman himself—and was beginning to ask myself whether I should attack you tooth and nail, having no other weapons, or propose terms of peace. Considering the severe losses which you—I mean his Turkish highness—had sustained, I fancied that you would not be disinclined to an arrangement just at this moment. But this very notion, at the same time, led me to the conclusion that I might end the struggle for ever by another blow. ...
— Charlemont • W. Gilmore Simms
... heron here made a poke at his royal highness with his great scissors bill, and the kingfisher scuffled out of sight in a fright, having learnt the lesson that a small tyrant, however grandly he may dress, is not always believed in; for with all his bright colours and gaudy plumes he was no match for ...
— Featherland - How the Birds lived at Greenlawn • George Manville Fenn
... the Prince bade his servant drag the body to a spot where a votive lamp set in the wall threw dim yellow rays to the pavement. Then his Highness was appalled to see that he had assassinated a scion of one of the noblest families of Venice, which was a very different thing from murdering a man of low degree whose life the law took ...
— Revenge! • by Robert Barr
... "will do less than due honour to the victor, if you compel him to wait till we tell your highness that which we cannot know; at least I can form no guess—unless he be one of the good lances who accompanied King Richard to Palestine, and who are now straggling homeward from the ...
— Ivanhoe - A Romance • Walter Scott
... house of Guise, was the wife of James VI. of Scotland; and through the powerful influence of the Guises, the brothers of the Scottish queen, a marriage was arranged between her daughter—her most serene little highness, Marie Stuart—and the dauphin, who would some ...
— A Short History of France • Mary Platt Parmele


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