Monseigneur
Americannoun
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a French title of honor given to princes, bishops, and other persons of eminence.
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a person bearing this title.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of Monseigneur
1590–1600; < French: my lord; see seigneur
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Marc, as he was known to his colleagues and friends, had a real artistic flair, devoting most of his free time to painting,” said his colleague Monseigneur Bruno Valentin, Auxiliary Bishop of Versailles.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 8, 2020
“Many citizens today live in fear, even if they do not say so aloud,” says Monseigneur Joachim Ntahondereye, president of the Burundian Council of Bishops.
From Economist ● May 17, 2018
Lucienne Boyer, and say that "Parisians go to the swank Monseigneur to hear her sing" or something of the sort.
From Time Magazine Archive
Monseigneur, whom the journalists later toasted in champagne with the cry "To the restoration of France!" handed them a manifesto.
From Time Magazine Archive
By turns "Father Angel"--for he had been a noted preacher--and Monseigneur, there were those who predicted that he would some day return to the cloister and die in his hood.
From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.
Seeing which course of things, Messeigneurs of the Court Triumvirate, Messieurs of the dead-born Broglie-Ministry, and others such, consider that their part also is clear: to mount and ride.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
Inevitable, silently nod Messeigneurs and Broglie: Inevitable and brief!
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
And now, ask in return, why Messeigneurs and Broglie the great god of war, on seeing these things, did not pause, and take some other course, any other course?
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
"Messeigneurs the bourgeois," he cried, at the top of his lungs to the crowd, which continued to hoot him, "we are going to begin at once."
From Notre-Dame De Paris by Hapgood, Isabel Florence
That is what is called even today, in the faculties and the seminaries, by the minister of public education and by Messeigneurs the bishops, proving the existence of God by metaphysics.
From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)
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