| 单词 | your excellency |
| 释义 | > as lemmasyour (also his, her, etc.) excellency b. As a title of honour. Frequently in your (also his, her, etc.) excellency. Cf. eminence n. 5, excellence n. 3b.The quots. show that it was formerly applied to royal personages, to ladies, and others, though in England now limited to ambassadors, ministers plenipotentiary, governors (extended also to their wives) and certain other high officers. 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 c1325 Address to Edw. II in Pike Year-bks. 13 & 14 Edw. III 362 Vestra Excellentia.] ?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Uiv v Your excellency [Queen Mary of France] doth styre and moue me continually. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 390 Sir John Bushe..made request..that it might please the kinges hignesse and excellencie, that, etc. 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena Authors Ep. Ded. sig. (b2) The Lord grant your Excellencie [Dutchess of Richmond] all increase of felicitie. 1708 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth (ed. 2) iii. 267 His Excellency the Moscovite ambassador. 1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. i. v. 85 Their Excellencies, who were privately told how much I had been their Friend. 1761 L. Scrafton Refl. Govt. Indostan iii. 67 They desired a private conference with the Soubah: but his Excellency..could by no means be brought to trust himself alone with them. 1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas Ded. To his Excellency Prince Alexander Mavrocordato late Secretary for Foreign Affairs. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 148 Retaining the guard of honour, the sword of state, and the title of Excellency. < as lemmas |
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