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HIGHNESS , literally the quality of being lofty or high, a term used, as are so many abstractions, as a title of dignity and honour, to signify exalted rank or station. These abstractions arose in great
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15 begins with " Also the Kinges Highness " hath ordered, 16 with " Kinges Majestie," and 17 with " Kinges Grace." In the Dedication of the Authorized Version of the Bible of 1611 James I. is still styled " Majesty " and " Highness "; thus, in the first paragraph, " the appearance of Your Majesty, as of the Sun in his strength, instantly dispelled those supposed and surmised mists . . . especially when we beheld the government established in Your Highness and Your hopeful Seed, by an undoubted title." It was, however, in James I.'s reign that " Majesty " became. the official title. It may be noted that Cromwell, as lord protector, and his wife were styled " Highness." In present usage the following members of the British Royal Family are addressed as " Royal Highness " (H.R.H.): all sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, uncles and aunts of the reigning sovereign, grandsons and granddaughters if children of sons, and also great
change of sovereign does not entail the forfeiture of the title " Royal Highness," once acquired, though the father of the bearer has become a nephew and not a grandson of the sovereign. The principal feudatory princes of the Indian empire are also styled " Highness."As a general rule the members of the blood royal of an Imperial or Royal house
bear the title of Royal or Grand Ducal Highness (Konigliche or Gross-Herzogliche Hoheit), while the members of the family are addressed as Hoheit, Highness, simply. Hoheit is borne by the reigning dukes and the princes and princesses of their families. The title " Serene Highness " has also an antiquity equal to that of " highness," for yaXnvorns and i7epor17s were titles borne by the Byzantine rulers, and serenitas and serenissimus by the emperors Honorius and Arcadius. The doge of Venice was also styled Serenissimus. Selden (op. cit. pt. ii. ch. x. 739) calls this title " one of the greatest that can be given to any Prince that hath not the superior title of King." In modern times " Serene Highness " (Altesse Ser@nissime) is used as the equivalent of the German Durchlaucht, a stronger form of Erlaucht, illustrious, represented in the Latin honorific superillustris. Thackeray's burlesque title " Transparency " in the court at Pumpernickel very accurately gives the meaning. The title of Durchlaucht was granted in 1375 by the emperor Charles IV. to the electoral princes (Kurfursten). In the 17th century it became the general title borne by the heads of the reigning princely states of the empire(reiclzstandische Fttrsten), as Erlaucht by those of the countly houses (reichstandische Grafen). In 1825 the German Diet agreed to grant the title Durchlaucht to the heads of the mediatized princely houses whether domiciled in Germany or Austria, and it is now customary to use it of the members of those houses. Further, all those who are elevated to the rank of prince (Furst) in the secondary meaning of that title (see PRINCE) are also styled Durchlaucht. In 1829 the title of Erlaucht, which had formerly been borne by the reigning counts
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