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Your Majesty en · PRON
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(formal) you (in direct address to such a monarch)
All our service,
In every point twice done and then double done,
Were poor and single business to contend
Against whose honors deep and broad wherewith
Your Majesty loads our house.
c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene vi]:“Sire,” said Villefort, “the rapidity of the event must prove to your majesty that God alone can prevent it, by raising a tempest; what your majesty is pleased to attribute to me as profound perspicacity is simply owing to chance; and I have profited by that chance, like a good and devoted servant—that's all. Do not attribute to me more than I deserve, sire, that your majesty may never have occasion to recall the first opinion you have been pleased to form of me.”
c. 1845, Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte-Cristo, page 59:
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Relateds
His Royal Highness · Their Royal Highnesses · Her Royal Highness · His Maj · His Imperial Highness · Her Excellency · Their Serene Highnesses · Your Maj · Her Majesty · His Serene Highness · Her Imperial Majesty · Your Royal Highness · Your Serene Highness · Their Majesties · His Imperial Majesty · Her Britannic Majesty · Their Royal Majesties · His Royal Majesty · His Highness · Your Highness · Their Holinesses · His Holiness · Your Imperial Majesty · His Excellency · Her Serene Highness · Her Highness · His Britannic Majesty · Your Britannic Majesty · Their Excellencies · Their Highnesses · Your Excellency · Their Imperial Highnesses · Their Britannic Majesties · Their Imperial Majesties · Her Imperial Highness · Her Royal Majesty · Her Holiness · Your Holiness · Your Royal Majesty · Her Maj · Your Imperial Highness · His Majesty
Your Majesty en · PROPN
Pronunciation
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(formal) A term of address used in direct address to a monarch of higher rank than a prince, such as a king, queen, emperor, or empress.
Your Majesty may do as your Majesty will with your Majesty's ships.
1926, H. W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, page 339:I have heard that Your Majesty wishes to have the great burial on the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month and that the court has sent its commissioner to supervise the tomb work.
1991 [1063 CE], Patricia Buckley Ebrey, quoting Sima Guang, “Combating Heterodoxy and Vulgarity in Weddings and Funerals”, in Confucianism and Family Rituals in Imperial China: A Social History of Writing about Rites, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 72:Knowing, as Lord Aberdeen does, that no political object is in view, he would feel ashamed to advise your Majesty to do anything at variance with that sympathy which your Majesty has been careful to keep within the bounds of prudence and moderation.
1911 [1854], “The Earl of Aberdeen to Queen Victoria, 17th January 1854”, in A. C. Benson, Viscount Esher, editors, The Letters of Queen Victoria, volume 3, page 7:
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(informal, sarcastic) A sarcastic term of address to anyone who is (or is acting) pompous or bossy.
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Translations (77)
fr Votre Majesté (term of address) · pt Vossa Majestade (term of address) · pl Wasza Wysokość (term of address) · tr Majesteleri (term of address) · el Μεγαλειοτάτη (term of address) · yo Kábíyèsí (term of address) · it Vostra Maestà (term of address) · eo Via Reĝa Moŝtino (term of address) · vo ol, o mayedal ! (term of address) · no Deres Majestet (term of address) · uk Ва́ша Вели́чність (term of address) · el Μεγαλειότατε (term of address) · cs Vaše Veličenstvo (term of address) · kn ನಿಮ್ಮ ಮಹಿಮೆ (term of address) · ka თქვენო უდიდებულესობავ (term of address) · fi Teidän Majesteettinne (term of address) · ru Ва́ше Вели́чество (term of address) · de Euer Majestät (term of address) · cmn 萬歲 /万岁 (term of address) · ne तपाईंको महिमा (term of address) · eo Via Imperiala Moŝtino (term of address) · fo Tygara Hátign (term of address) · sh Vaše Visočanstvo (term of address) · et Teie Majesteet (term of address) · sh Vaše Veličanstvo (term of address) · sk Vaše Veličenstvo (term of address) · az Əlahəzrət (term of address) · ms tuanku (term of address) · is Yðar Hátign (term of address) · hy Ձերդ մեծություն (term of address) · la Maiestas Tua (term of address) · vi bệ hạ (term of address) · gu તમારી ભવ્યતા (term of address) · ta உமது கம்பீரம் (term of address) · nl Uwe Majesteit (term of address) · si උතුමාණනි (term of address) · cy Eich Mawrhydi (term of address) · ko 마마 (term of address) · nup Bagandòzhì (term of address) · hi महाराज (term of address) · eo Via Reĝa Moŝto (term of address) · be Ва́ша Вялі́касць (term of address) · he הוֹד מַלְכוּתוֹ (term of address) · ru госуда́рь (term of address) · bg Ва́ше Вели́чество (term of address) · be Ва́ша Вялі́касьць (term of address) · ja 陛下 (term of address) · ms Tuanku (term of address) · mk Ваше Величество (term of address) · ar جَلَالَتُكَ (term of address) · gl A súa Maxestade (term of address) · fr sire (term of address) · eo Via Imperiala Moŝto (term of address) · sh Ваша Висости (term of address) · ko 폐하 (term of address) · hu Őfelsége (term of address) · sv ers majestät (term of address) · it Sua Maestà (term of address) · id Yang Mulia (term of address) · es Su Majestad (term of address) · da Deres Majestæt (term of address) · ar جَلَالَتُكِ (term of address) · bn মহামহিম (term of address) · de Eure Majestät (term of address) · sh Vaša Visosti (term of address) · sh Ваше Височанство (term of address) · gd Ur Mhòrachd (term of address) · cmn 陛下 (term of address) · ca Sa Majestat (term of address) · mi Tōu Whakaritenga (term of address) · ro Majestatea Voastră (term of address) · te మీ ఘనత (term of address) · sh Ваше Величанство (term of address) · sv Eders Majestät (term of address) · ga do mhaorga (term of address) · sl Vaše Veličanstvo (term of address) · hi महारानी (term of address)