单词 | most serene |
释义 | > as lemmasmost serene 4. An honorific epithet given to a reigning prince (esp. of Germany), formerly also to a member of a royal house, etc.; sometimes jocularly applied to anything appertaining to a person so designated. Also most serene = medieval Latin serenissimus, Italian serenissimo, French sérénissime. Cf. serenity n. 4. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [adjective] > specific epithets for persons of rank > for royalty or other exalted personages grandc1526 serenea1550 most religious1567 sacred1600 serenissimous1623 serenissime1624 super-illustrious1630 a1550 Now Fayre, Fayrest of Euery Fayre in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 29 Borne of a princes most serene. 1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour l. 3074 in Wks. (1931) I And send one Message to the Quene, Prayand hir Maiestie serene That scho wald [etc.]. 1630 P. Massinger Picture sig. C3 You are like me a subiect. Her more then serene Maiesty being present. 1660 Exact Accompt Trial Regicides 17 A Warrant for the Execution of His late Sacred and Serene Majesty. 1673 J. Ogilby Asia Ded. To His Most Serene, and Most Excellent Majesty, Charles II. 1711 Act 10 Anne c. 4 The most serene Elector of Brunswick-Lunenburgh. 1740 T. Gray Let. 20 May (1971) I. 155 His Highness the Duke of Modena..laid his most serene commands upon me to write to Mr. West. 1745 H. Walpole Let. to H. Mann 24 June The Duke of Saxe Weissenfels..is not of so serene a house but that he might have known something of the motions of the Prussians. 1746 H. Walpole Let. 17 June in Corr. (1941) IX. 32 The Serene Hessian is gone. 1773 Ann. Reg. 1772 153/2 Genoa, Dec. 26. On the 22d instant..died..the serene John Baptist Cambiaso, Doge of this republic. 1861 W. M. Thackeray Four Georges i. 29 The lovely sisters..journeyed to Hanover, and became favourites of the serene house there reigning. 1861 W. M. Thackeray Four Georges i. 26 There were 600 horses in the Serene stables. 1879 S. Baring-Gould Germany I. 29 Princes to whom the predicate of durchlaucht (‘your serene highness’) is accorded. < as lemmas |
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