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Holiness

nouncommon in dialogue

Used in connection with His or Your to address the leader of some religious traditions, notably the pope.

noun

  1. 1

    Used in connection with His or Your to address the leader of some religious traditions, notably the pope.

    Your Holiness

    Currently he is a firm pillar that is supporting the Tibetan diaspora, holding them all together—but I worry about what will happen to Tibetans when His Holiness leaves his current body.

Forms

plural
Holinesses
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).