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your grace

Speech parts

1. your grace - Noun

2. your grace - Pronoun

Meaning

(formal) A title of respect used when addressing a duke or duchess or other high noble of equivalent rank.

(formal, obsolete) you (as a polite form of address to social superiors)

(Christianity) Used in direct address to archbishops.

(Especially Eastern Orthodoxy Christianity) Used in direct address to bishops, although in British English sometimes only granted to the Bishop of Meath and Kildare in Ireland.

(UK) Used in direct address to dukes and to Lord High Commissioners.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Let's dance for fear your grace should fall Let's dance for fear tonight is all. David Bowie

Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them. Jim Butcher

Banish the faceless reward your grace Banish the faceless reward your grace. Nico

Oh, it's evil babe The way you let your grace enrapture me, When well you know I'd be insane To ever let that dirty game recapture me.You made me a shadowboxer, baby. I wanna be ready for what you do. I been swinging all around me 'Cause I don't know when you're gonna make your move. Fiona Apple

I have meddled in so many matters under your Highness that I am not able to answer them all...but hard it is for me or any other meddling as I have done to live under your grace and your laws but we must daily offend. Thomas Cromwell, 1st Earl of Essex

O Beloved, in your mercy forgive me my sins and accept my night-long weeping. I live in bewilderment, full of transgressions– Only your grace will bring me release. Sarmad Kashani

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