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your Honor
- (formal, obsolete, addressing someone of higher rank or status than oneself) you
1626 September 18 (Gregorian calendar), James Howell, “XXV. To the Right Honourable the Lord Conway, Principal Secretary of State to His Majesty, at Hampton Court.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. , 3rd edition, volume I, London: Humphrey Mosley, , published 1655, →OCLC, section IV, page 177:Touching the firſt, I refer my ſelf to your Honors favourable Opinion, and the Character which my Lord S. and others ſhall give of me: […]
1847, George Washington, The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, page 26:The numbers of the French have been greatly magnified, as your Honor may see by a copy of the enclosed journal of a person, whom I sent out to gain intelligence.
- (US, formal, addressing a judge or magistrate) you
- (chiefly Philippines, formal) you (a form of address for a representative or senator in the Philippine Congress during hearings and inquiries, and for canvassers during the canvass of electoral results).
Usage notes
Although this phrase is used as the second person pronoun, the verb it governs is conjugated in the third person.
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