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majesty

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1. majesty - Noun

2. majesty - Pronoun

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The dignity and authority of sovereign power; quality or state which inspires awe or reverence; grandeur; exalted dignity, whether proceeding from rank, character, or bearing; imposing loftiness; stateliness; -- usually applied to the rank and dignity of sovereigns.

Hence, used with the possessive pronoun, the title of an emperor, king or queen; -- in this sense taking a plural; as, their majesties attended the concert.

Dignity; elevation of manner or style.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Virtue alone has majesty in death. Edward Young

Be noble, and the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own. James Russell Lowell

Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd The next, in majesty in both the last. The force of Nature could no further go To make a third, she join'd the former two. John Dryden

To know the mighty works of God to comprehend His wisdom and majesty and power to appreciate, in degree, the wonderful working of His laws, surely all this must be a pleasing and acceptable mode of worship to the Most High to whom ignorance can not be more grateful than knowledge. Nicolaus Copernicus

In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day. Charles Dickens

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