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English Dictionary: Highness by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Highness
n
  1. (Your Highness or His Highness or Her Highness) title used to address a royal person
  2. the quality of being high or lofty
    Synonym(s): highness, loftiness
    Antonym(s): lowness
  3. a high degree (of amount or force etc.); "responsible for the highness of the rates"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Highness \High"ness\, n. [AS. he[a0]hnes.]
      1. The state of being high; elevation; loftiness.
  
      2. A title of honor given to kings, princes, or other persons
            of rank; as, His Royal Highness. --Shak.
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