highness
noun
the quality or state of being high; loftiness.
highnesses
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pluralof highness.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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"Having spent the last two Christmases at Sandringham, their royal highnesses will spend the holidays this year, as a new family, with the duchess' mother, Doria Ragland."
From Fox News ● Nov. 15, 2019
Glittering and clanking behind his catafalque came one emperor, nine kings, five heirs apparent, 40 royal highnesses, three queens and four dowager queens.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their royal highnesses will be able to swim in a lagoon-shaped pool, or catch a film in the 45-seat basement cinema.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last September, after Parliament failed to approve a bill that would amend the constitution and reduce their highnesses to just plain misters, she ordered the President of India, V.V.
From Time Magazine Archive
Your highnesses would sell him anew for thirty thousand.
From Lives of Celebrated Women by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich
