Monseigneur meaning

môɴ-sĕ-nyœr'
Used as an honorific in French-speaking areas, especially as accorded to princes and prelates.
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A French title of honor given to persons of high birth or rank or to important church officers.
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A person with this title.
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An honorific form of address for an eminent person in France, especially under the Ancien Régime.
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(in particular) A title of the Dauphin of France.
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Alternative capitalization of monseigneur.
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Origin of monseigneur

French from Old French mon my Monsieur seignor lord, sir seignior

Sentence Examples

  • No, monseigneur, you cannot have known me.

  • "Monseigneur!" exclaimed Pierre, not in an offended but in a pleading voice.

  • "No, monseigneur," he said, suddenly remembering that Davout was a duke.

  • 15th, 1900), the first of a series intended to correct and replace Renan's presentation of that great subject, was promptly censured by Cardinal Richard, archbishop of Paris; and though scholarly and zealous ecclesiastics, such as the Jesuit Pere Durand and Monseigneur Mignot, archbishop of Albi, defended the general method and several conclusions of the article, the aged cardinal never rested henceforward till he had secured a papal condemnation also.

  • In 1547 appeared Martin's French translation of Vitruvius, the illustrations of which were due, the translator tells us in his "Dedication to the King," to Goujon, "nagueres architecte de Monseigneur le Connetable, et maintenant un des votres."

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