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The pronoun you use when 'you' isn't grand enough for the ego in the room.
means A title and quality of royal grandeur — the dignity, power, or sovereign authority that surrounds a monarch or supreme being.
from From Latin 'maiestas,' meaning greatness, dignity, or sovereign power — itself built on 'maior,' the comparative of 'magnus' (great), so the word literally means 'greaterness.' It passed through Old French 'majeste' into Middle English, originally describing the grandeur of gods and emperors before it narrowed into a form of address — the moment a quality became a title you could kneel before.
- origin
- from Latin maiestas, meaning greatness or dignity
- royal flex
- became standard address for English monarchs under Henry VIII
- grammar quirk
- takes third-person verbs even when addressing someone directly
- democratic irony
- republics abolished kings but kept the word for awe