your grace meaning (formal): definition

your grace

pronalso spelled your Grace

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)

pron

Christianity Used in direct address to archbishops.

Used in direct address to bishops, although in British English sometimes only granted to the Bishop of Meath and Kildare in Ireland.

Especially Eastern Orthodoxy Christianity

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

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