Your Majesty
Your Majesty proper noun: a term of address used in direct address to a monarch of higher rank than a prince, such as a king, queen, emperor, or empress.
Proper noun
Your Majesty (plural Your Majesties)
- A term of address used in direct address to a monarch of higher rank than a prince, such as a king, queen, emperor, or empress.
- Knowing, as Lord Aberdeen does, that no political object is in view, he would feel ashamed to advise your Majesty to do anything at variance with that sympathy which your Majesty has been careful to keep within the bounds of prudence and moderation.1911 [1854], “The Earl of Aberdeen to Queen Victoria, 17th January 1854”, in A. C. Benson, Viscount Esher, editors, The Letters of Queen Victoria, volume 3, page 7
- Your Majesty may do as your Majesty will with your Majesty's ships.1926, H. W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, page 339
- A sarcastic term of address to anyone who is (or is acting) pompous or bossy.
Pronoun
Your Majesty (plural Your Majesties)
- you (in direct address to such a monarch)
- 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.c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount... - “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...c. 1845, Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte-Cristo, page 59
- All our service,
Your Majesty meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Telugu
Your Majesty in Hindi
- term of address
- महाराज mahārāj, महारानी mahārānī
Your Majesty in Tamil
- term of address
- உமது கம்பீரம் umatu kampīram
Your Majesty in Bengali
- term of address
- মহামহিম mohamohim
Your Majesty in Telugu
- term of address
- మీ ఘనత mī ghanata
More languagesFewer languages
- Your Majesty in Kannada
- ನಿಮ್ಮ ಮಹಿಮೆ nimma mahime
- Your Majesty in Gujarati
- તમારી ભવ્યતા tamārī bhavyatā
- Your Majesty in Sinhala
- උතුමාණනි utumāṇani
- Your Majesty in Nepali
- तपाईंको महिमा tapāīṃko mahimā
- Your Majesty in Arabic
- جَلَالَتُكَ jalālatuka, جَلَالَتُكِ jalālatuki
- Your Majesty in Malay
- Tuanku, tuanku
- Your Majesty in Indonesian
- Yang Mulia
- Your Majesty in Vietnamese
- bệ hạ
Examples of Your Majesty in a sentence
- I have heard that Your Majesty wishes to have the great burial on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month and that the court has sent its commissioner to supervise the tomb work.1991 [1063 CE], Patricia Buckley Ebrey, quoting Sima Guang, “Combating Heterodoxy and Vulgarity in Weddings and Funerals”, in Confucianism...
- 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.”c. 1845, Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte-Cristo, page 59:
Forms of Your Majesty
| Proper noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | Your Majesties |
| Pronoun | |
| plural | Your Majesties |
| third-person alternative | His Majesty |
| third-person alternative | Her Majesty |
Questions about Your Majesty
- What does Your Majesty mean?
- Your Majesty means a term of address used in direct address to a monarch of higher rank than a prince, such as a king, queen, emperor, or empress.
- What is Your Majesty in Hindi?
- Your Majesty in Hindi is महाराज (mahārāj), महारानी (mahārānī). See Your Majesty meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use Your Majesty in a sentence?
- I have heard that Your Majesty wishes to have the great burial on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month and that the court has sent its commissioner to supervise the tomb work.
- What part of speech is Your Majesty?
- Your Majesty can be a proper noun or a pronoun.
Words near Your Majesty in the dictionary
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