Your Honor en · PRON
Pronunciation
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Meanings
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(formal, obsolete, qualifier:addressing someone of higher rank or status than oneself) you
Touching the firſt, I refer my ſelf to your Honors favourable Opinion, and the Character which my Lord S. and others ſhall give of me: […]
1626 September 17 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “XXV. To the Right Honourable the Lord Conway, Principal Secretary of State to His Majesty, at Hampton Court.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume I, London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], published 1655, →OCLC, section IV, page 177:The numbers of the French have been greatly magnified, as your Honor may see by a copy of the enclosed journal of a person, whom I sent out to gain intelligence.
1847, George Washington, The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, page 26:
- (Philippines, formal) you (a form of address for a representative or senator in the Philippine Congress during hearings and inquiries, and for canvassers during the canvass of electoral results).
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Your Honour | UK, alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (12)
de Herr Vorsitzender (Translations) · de Herr Richter (Translations) · hy մեծարգո դատավոր (Translations) · es Su Señoría (Translations) · ar حَضْرَتُك (Translations) · it Vostro Onore (in dubbing) (Translations) · it Signor Giudice (Translations) · pt Meritíssimo (Translations) · it Signora Giudice (Translations) · de Frau Richterin (Translations) · hy Ձերդ արժանապատվություն (Translations) · de Frau Vorsitzende (Translations)