your grace
see also: your Grace
Pronoun
your Grace
Noun
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see also: your Grace
Pronoun
- (formal, obsolete) you (as a polite form of address to social superiors)
- (formal pronoun phrases used for second person) Your Majesty, Your Highness, your Honor
- French: Votre Grâce
- German: Euer Gnaden
- Russian: Ва́ша Ми́лость
- Spanish: vuestra merced, su merced
your Grace
Noun
your grace (plural your graces)
- (Christian) Used in direct address to archbishops.
- (Especially Eastern Orthodox Christian) Used in direct address to bishops, although in British English sometimes only granted to the Bishop of Meath and Kildare in Ireland.
- (UK) Used in direct address to dukes and to Lord High Commissioners.
- (UK, to dukes, now only common in correspondence) my Lord Duke
- (UK, to bishops of the Church of England comprising the Lords Spiritual) my Lord Bishop
- (UK, to other bishops) my Lord
- (UK, to dukes, historical, now improper) my Lord
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