highness
/ˈhaɪnəs/ noun B2- The state of being high.
- A title of respect when referring to a prince or princess.
Plural highnesses
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“Well, would you please, sir, march upstairs, where we can get a cab to carry your Highness to the police-station?”
“‘I, El-Kobbir, a slave-merchant, and purveyor of the harem of his highness, acknowledge having received for transmission to the sublime emperor, from the French lord, the Count of Monte Cristo, an emerald valued at eight hundred thousand francs; as the ransom of a young Christian slave of eleven years of age, named Haydée, the acknowledged daughter of the late lord Ali Tepelini, pasha of Yanina, and of Vasiliki, his favorite; she having been sold to me seven years previously, with her mother, who had died on arriving at Constantinople, by a French colonel in the service of the Vizier Ali Tepelini, named Fernand Mondego.
The above-mentioned purchase was made on his highness’s account, whose mandate I had, for the sum of four hundred thousand francs.
“‘Given at Constantinople, by authority of his highness, in the year 1247 of the Hegira.
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