Your Serene Highness
English
Pronoun
Your Serene Highness (plural Your Serene Highnesses)
- (formal) A term of address used in addressing a personage of any of a variety of certain dignities, but chiefly a reigning or sovereign prince, such as those of Liechtenstein and of Monaco.
- 1879, Baring-Gould, Germany, volume I, page 29:
- Princes to whom the predicate of durchlaucht (‘your serene highness’) is accorded.
Related terms
- serenissime
- serenissimo
- serenissimous
- Your Sereneness
- Your Serenity
Translations
term of address for a personage of a certain dignity, esp. a reigning prince
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See also
| Third person – female (Her) | Third person – male (His) | Second person (Your) | Third person – plural (Their) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Her Britannic Majesty | His Britannic Majesty | Your Britannic Majesty | Their Britannic Majesties |
| Her Excellency | His Excellency | Your Excellency | Their Excellencies |
| Her Highness | His Highness | Your Highness | Their Highnesses |
| Her Holiness | His Holiness | Your Holiness | Their Holinesses |
| Her Imperial Highness | His Imperial Highness | Your Imperial Highness | Their Imperial Highnesses |
| Her Imperial Majesty | His Imperial Majesty | Your Imperial Majesty | Their Imperial Majesties |
| Her Maj | His Maj | Your Maj | |
| Her Majesty | His Majesty | Your Majesty | Their Majesties |
| Her Royal Highness | His Royal Highness | Your Royal Highness | Their Royal Highnesses |
| Her Royal Majesty | His Royal Majesty | Your Royal Majesty | Their Royal Majesties |
| Her Serene Highness | His Serene Highness | Your Serene Highness | Their Serene Highnesses |
Further reading
- James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Serene, a. and sb.²”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VIII, Part 2 (S–Sh), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, pages 492–493:
- A. adj. […] 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 = med.L. serenissimus, It. serenissimo, F. sérénissime. Cf. Serenity 4.
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