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highness

[hahy-nis] / ˈhaɪ nɪs /
NOUN
quality of being high
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“That was in large part engineered by his highness MBS in Saudi Arabia” and other Saudi officials, he said.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 20, 2025

"He took my hand and said, as if it was his last breath: 'Your highness, I ask you just one thing: keep the country united,'" Juan Carlos recalls.

From Barron's Nov. 5, 2025

“I am available anytime to see you and His royal highness M.B.Z.,”

From New York Times May 22, 2022

He also can no longer use the title "his royal highness" in official settings.

From Fox News Feb. 16, 2022

‘All of those man-eating giants is enormous and very fierce! They is all at least two times my wideness and double my royal highness!’

From "The BFG" by Roald Dahl

"Having spent the last two Christmases at Sandringham, their royal highnesses will spend the holidays this year, as a new family, with the duchess' mother, Doria Ragland."

From Fox News Nov. 15, 2019

Last September, after Parliament failed to approve a bill that would amend the constitution and reduce their highnesses to just plain misters, she ordered the President of India, V.V.

From Time Magazine Archive

Liechtenstein boasts 72 princes and princesses, which is eleven more highnesses than it has square miles.

From Time Magazine Archive

At last count, there were 72 princes and princesses of Liechtenstein, which is eleven more highnesses than there are square miles in the minuscule principality.

From Time Magazine Archive

He, an unknown student, had found himself suddenly plunged into the heart of an anarchist plot, and on nodding terms with royal highnesses!

From The Book of All-Power by Edgar Wallace




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