Your Grace

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Your Grace¹

pronoun your graces

  1. formal A title of respect used when addressing a duke or duchess or other high noble of equivalent rank.
  2. formal, obsolete you (as a polite form of address to social superiors)

your Grace²

pronoun your Graces

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

    Similar: my Lord

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

    Similar: my Lord Duke, my Lord Bishop, my Lord

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pron you

Españolvuestra merced, su merced, vuecelencia, vuecencia
Portuguêsvossa mercê
FrançaisVotre Grâce
DeutschEuer Gnaden
РусскийВа́ша Ми́лость Váša Mílostʹ, Ва́ша Све́тлость Váša Svétlostʹ

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@misc{your_grace_2026,
  title = {Your Grace},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/your%20grace},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}