your Grace
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English
Noun
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
- (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