Your Majesty
Pronoun
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Pronoun
- (formal) A title of respect used when addressing a monarch#English|monarch of higher rank than a prince#English|prince; that is, a king#English|king, queen#English|queen, emperor#English|emperor, or empress#English|empress.
- circa 1605 William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1, scene 6:
- All our service,
- In every point twice done and then double done,
- Were poor and single business to contend
- Against whose honors deep and broad wherewith
- Your Majesty loads our house.
- circa 1845 Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte-Cristo, page 59:
- “ Sire,” said Villefort, “ the rapidity of the event must prove to your majesty that God alone can prevent it, by raising a tempest ; what your majesty is pleased to attribute to me as profound perspicacity is simply owing to chance ; and I have profited by that chance, like a good and devoted servant—that's all. Do not attribute to me more than I deserve, sire, that your majesty may never have occasion to recall the first opinion you have been pleased to form of me.”
- circa 1605 William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1, scene 6:
- (informal, sarcastic) A sarcastic term of address to anyone who is (or is acting) pompous#English|pompous or bossy#English|bossy.
- French: Votre Majesté, sire
- German: Ihre Majestät
- Italian: Sua Maestà, Vostra Maestà
- Portuguese: Vossa Majestade
- Russian: госуда́рь
- Spanish: Su Majestad
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