Monseigneur

American  

[mawn-se-nyœr] / mɔ̃ sɛˈnjœr /

Or monseigneur

noun

• Messeigneurs
  plural

1. a French title of honor given to princes, bishops, and other persons of eminence.

2. a person bearing this title.

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Monseigneur British  

/ mɔ̃sɛɲœr /

noun

1.  Mgr.  a title given to French bishops, prelates, and princes

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Messeigneurs
  plural

Etymology

Origin of Monseigneur

1590–1600; < French: my lord; see seigneur

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

Monseigneur Messeigneurs

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

They had heard pontifical high mass sung by Montreal's Auxiliary Bishop Alphonse Emmanuel Deschamps, later assisted at benediction of the Blessed Sacrament given by Vicar General Monseigneur Conrad Chaumont.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Paris, people go to swank Monseigneur especially to hear Lucienne Boyer sing "Parlez-Moi d'Amour," a.soft, fragile French song.

From Time Magazine Archive

Very well," said the good man, whom the Marquise had told not to thwart his master; "I will call Monseigneur, Count only.

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 by Various

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 Thomas Carlyle

"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 Isabel Florence Hapgood

Inevitable, silently nod Messeigneurs and Broglie: Inevitable and brief!

From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle

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 P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon

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 Thomas Carlyle