Highness
['haɪnɪs]
Definition
(noun.) a high degree (of amount or force etc.); 'responsible for the highness of the rates'.
(noun.) the quality of being high or lofty.
(noun.) (Your Highness or His Highness or Her Highness) title used to address a royal person.
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Definition
(n.) The state of being high; elevation; loftiness.
(n.) A title of honor given to kings, princes, or other persons of rank; as, His Royal Highness.
Editor: Will
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Loftiness, altitude, elevation, height.[2]. Eminence, exaltation, dignity.[3]. Violence, vehemence, turbulence.[4]. Greatness.[5]. Acuteness, shrillness, sharpness.
Typist: Melba
Examples
- I made my humble acknowledgments to his highness for so great a favour. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- We therefore decline with thanks your Highness's courteous invitation to the banquet. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Nonsense, said Luttrell, Her Royal Highness has allowed me to be off. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- A Frenchman brought it hither, who said, he had ridden night and day to put it into the hands of your highness. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I had heard before that we were to breakfast there, but Blucher said he believed Baker's boy had suggested it to his Imperial Highness. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He was charmed with me, for refusing His Royal Highness. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The victor, said De Wyvil, still waits the pleasure of your highness. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I am the culprit, your highness, said Maurice, bowing. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- She was placed at the grand exclusive table with his Royal Highness the exalted personage before mentioned, and the rest of the great guests. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Your highness must break short this present mummery. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- And we'll see if that's as good as the Madeira, George, to which his Royal Highness is welcome, I'm sure. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Well, would you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry your Highness to the police-station? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I stayed till sunset, but humbly desired his highness to excuse me for not accepting his invitation of lodging in the palace. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I have been faithful to my post since the days of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, and I will not desert it now. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He's his Royal Highness's right-hand man. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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