| 单词 | your mightiness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyour mightiness 2. With possessive adjective (as your mightiness, etc.): a title of respect given to a personage of exalted rank. Also in extended use. Now usually ironic. See also High Mightiness n. at high adj. and n.2 Compounds 4, high and mightiness n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [noun] yea1225 my Lordc1300 seigniorc1330 squire1382 noblessec1390 lordship1394 grace1423 gentlenessc1425 magnificencec1425 noblenessc1425 greatness1473 worshipc1475 your mightinessa1500 excellency?1533 celsitude1535 altitude1543 Your Honour1551 sublimity1553 excellencea1592 captal1592 gentleperson1597 clemencya1600 gravity1618 grace1625 grandeur1632 eximiousness1648 professorship1656 prince1677 excellenceshipc1716 Graceship1804 seigniorship1823 valiancy1828 your seignorie1829 a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 84 (MED) Þat þey sholde noght be vnkennyd to þy worthy myghtynesse. a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. I2 In royallising Henries Albion, With presence of your princelie mightines. 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iii. 126 This minion..braues your mightenes[1623 Mightinesse] . View more context for this quotation a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Prophetesse iii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Eeee/2 Does your Mightinesse..yet understand our faces? 1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 119 I am therefore to know if your mightiness will accept of this Proposition. View more context for this quotation 1709 D. Manley Secret Mem. 19 Your Mightiness has indeed guess'd at my Thoughts. 1761 F. C. Chamberlaine Mem. S. Bidulph II. 126 May I presume to enquire what your mightiness's pleasure is in regard to me? 1846 Southern & Western Literary Messenger & Rev. 12 130/2 His Mightiness, therefore, has only to declare his intentions. 1860 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) 30 June 116/1 The chamber..which he puts at the service of your serene and lofty mightiness has a wainscot of ebony. 1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxiv. 302 Here standeth in the flesh his mightiness The Boss, and with thine own ears shall ye hear him speak. 1966 P. K. Dick in Amazing Stories Aug. 12/1 His Mightiness, the Anarch Peak, has become infantile and will soon shrivel up entirely into a homunculus and re-enter a nearby womb. 1995 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Dec. 22/3 The primacy of the princes of Orange..or, in his absence or exclusion, that of Their Great Mightinesses of Holland alone, with the councillor pensionary as their masterly servant. < as lemmas |
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