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Highness   /hˈaɪnəs/   Listen
noun
Highness  n.  
1.
The state of being high; elevation; loftiness.
2.
A title of honor given to kings, princes, or other persons of rank; as, His Royal Highness.





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"Highness" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Has your highness heard that?" asked the queen, smiling. "I wonder what sharp ears Madame Adelaide always has to catch such a trifling rumor, while my younger ones have never caught the least hint of the important approach of the princess, and so I am equally surprised and delighted at the unexpected appearance of ...
— Marie Antoinette And Her Son • Louise Muhlbach
... arrive at your house, sir," said De Chemerant, "I shall communicate to you the full powers which his majesty has charged me to place before the eyes of your highness." ...
— A Romance of the West Indies • Eugene Sue
... the outrage as an imperious reason for accepting his hand. That is a summary of Mrs. Glyn's novel, of which, by the way, I must quote the dedication: "With grateful homage and devotion I dedicate this book to Her Imperial Highness The Grand Duchess Vladimir of Russia. In memory of the happy evenings spent in her gracious presence when reading to her these pages, which her sympathetic aid in facilitating my opportunities for studying ...
— Books and Persons - Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 • Arnold Bennett
... and I dare say Lydia loved him, after her own fashion; yet she seems to have forgotten him pretty soon, and—as you say—intends to marry a prince. I don't envy his highness." ...
— The Silent House • Fergus Hume
... Rajah, though he spoke English perfectly, had insisted on bringing his own interpreter with him. A long pause in conformity with Oriental etiquette follows, then the Viceroy puts the first invariable question: "I trust that your Highness is in the enjoyment of good health?" which is duly repeated in Urdu by the official white interpreter. The sulky Rajah grunts something that sounds like "Bhirrr Whirrr," which the native interpreter renders, in clipped staccato English, ...
— The Days Before Yesterday • Lord Frederick Hamilton


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