highness

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun (Your Highness or His Highness or Her Highness) title used to address a royal person
noun the quality of being high or lofty
noun a high degree (of amount or force etc.)

From Middle English hyghnesse; equivalent to high + -ness.

"To Vienna, Highness," Marco answered. — The Lost Prince, Frances Hodgson Burnett
His highness does not either." — The Place of Honeymoons, Harold MacGrath
"Ah, yes, your royal highness," she said. — A Little Princess: Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time, Frances Hodgson Burnett

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