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life, prosperity, health

life, prosperity, health interjection: an honorific phrase used after the names of kings, queens, princes, etc., after the words of a king, ruler, or prince, after references to the royal household, and, more rarely, after the names of ordinary people.

Interjection

  1. an honorific phrase used after the names of kings, queens, princes, etc., after the words of a king, ruler, or prince, after references to the royal household, and, more rarely, after the names of ordinary people.
    • It is a communication to the Master,—Life, Prosperity, Health!—about causing to be sent to me 10 re-geese for (?) the servant there.1898, William Matthew Flinders Petrie, Francis Llewellyn Griffith, Hieratic Papyri from Kahun and Gurob (principally of the Middle Kingdom), page 67
    • The matters that occurred following what was written in the book of decrees from Year 44 of the Pharaoh — life, prosperity, health — Amasis — life, prosperity, health —, until Cambyses was in command of Egypt; he died ...(?) before regaining his country.2013, A. Kuhrt, The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period, page 125

Examples of life, prosperity, health in a sentence

  • Then did His Majesty say to him, ‘I have traversed all the rooms of the palace (life, prosperity, health) in search of recreation, but I have found none.’2014, Alan B. Lloyd, Ancient Egypt: State and Society, page 85:
  • However, it happened that, as for King Seqnen-Re—life, prosperity, health!—he was Ruler—life, prosperity, health!—of the Southern City.2016, James B. Pritchard, Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament with Supplement, page 231:

Forms of life, prosperity, health

alternative formL.P.H.

Origin of life, prosperity, health

Calque of Egyptian anx-DA-s (ꜥnḫ wḏꜣ snb).

Questions about life, prosperity, health

What does life, prosperity, health mean?
Life, prosperity, health means an honorific phrase used after the names of kings, queens, princes, etc., after the words of a king, ruler, or prince, after references to the royal household, and, more rarely, after the names of ordinary people.
How do you use life, prosperity, health in a sentence?
Then did His Majesty say to him, ‘I have traversed all the rooms of the palace (life, prosperity, health) in search of recreation, but I have found none.’
What part of speech is life, prosperity, health?
Life, prosperity, health is an interjection.

Words near life, prosperity, health in the dictionary

  1. life's a bitch, and then you die
  2. life's lesson
  3. life's too short
  4. life's work
  5. life's works
  6. life, prosperity, health
  7. life-affirming
  8. life-and-death
  9. life-arrow
  10. life-arrows
  11. life-bearing

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