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highness

noun as in quality of being high

noun as in term of respect, usually to royalty

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The couple left official royal duties in January 2020, giving up their titles of “your highness” and stopped receiving public funds.

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Minaj said, “I told them I’m not f**king putting up with her f**king highness over there. Off with her head.”

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She had allowed the documentarian to film her preparing “Memory Lost,” a slide show that wrestles with the experience of addiction, and “Sirens,” which combines movie stills and a Mica Levi score simulating highness.

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Andrew was stripped of his honorary military titles in January and told he can no longer use the title “his royal highness.”

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At the field’s far end, Queen Elizabeth I herself makes an appearance for a ticketed afternoon tea service hosted by her royal highness.

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