2. Noun. (plural of highnesse) ¹
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Definition of Highnesses
1. highness [n] - See also: highness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Highnesses
Literary usage of Highnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's Encyclopædia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1902: Based by Benson John Lossing, John Fiske, Woodrow Wilson (1902)
"You will also take care that the orders which their highnesses shall give on this
point be ... Their highnesses are well informed of all that takes place, ..."
2. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs, from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"On the 6th their royall highnesses came to York, and continued there for two ...
On the loth their royall highnesses parted from York, and lay that night at ..."
3. The Public and Private Life of His Late ... Majesty, George the Third by Robert Huish (1821)
"It was on the 5th of April 1749, that the lord mayor, aldermen, $•<:., proceeded
in state to Leicester-house, to congratulate their royal highnesses the ..."
4. The Queens of England and Their Times: From Matilda, Queen of William the by Francis Lancelott (1858)
"_.j favourite, Bentinck, to apply to of their highnesses* carriages, chaunt- ing
joyous songs, and strewing the way with herbs and flowers ; and at the ..."
5. The Coronation of Edward the Seventh: A Chapter of European and Imperial History by John Edward Courtenay Bodley (1903)
"Their Royal highnesses The Prince and Princess of Wales. Their Royal highnesses
Prince Edward and Prince Albert of Wales.1 Her Royal Highness The Princess ..."
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