your Grace
See also: your grace
English edit
Noun edit
your Grace (plural your Graces)
- (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.
Synonyms edit
- (UK, to dukes, now only common in correspondence) my Lord Duke
- (UK, to bishops of the Church of England comprising the Lords Spiritual) my Lord Bishop
- (UK, to other bishops) my Lord
- (UK, to dukes, historical, now improper) my Lord