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Royal we, the Glossary

The royal we, majestic plural (pluralis majestatis), or royal plural is the use of a plural pronoun (or corresponding plural-inflected verb forms) used by a single person who is a monarch or holds a high office to refer to themselves.^[1]

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Personal pronouns

Allah

Allah (ﷲ|translit.

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Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.

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Augustine of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo (Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa.

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Bishop

A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Chinese characters

Chinese characters are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture.

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Chinese Civil War

The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China and the forces of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), with armed conflict continuing intermittently from 1 August 1927 until 7 December 1949, resulting in a communist victory and control of mainland China.

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Chinese Communist Party

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), officially the Communist Party of China (CPC), is the founding and sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC).

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Chinese honorifics

Chinese honorifics and honorific language are words, word constructs, and expressions in the Chinese language that convey self-deprecation, social respect, politeness, or deference.

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Chinese pronouns

Chinese pronouns differ somewhat from pronouns in English and other Indo-European languages.

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Commonwealth realm

A Commonwealth realm is a sovereign state within the Commonwealth that has Charles III as its monarch and ceremonial head of state.

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Edward VII

Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.

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El Shaddai

El Shaddai (translit) or just Shaddai is one of the names of God in Judaism.

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Elohim

Elohim, the plural of rtl, is a Hebrew word meaning "gods" or "godhood".

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Empire of Japan

The Empire of Japan, also referred to as the Japanese Empire, Imperial Japan, or simply Japan, was the Japanese nation-state that existed from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 until the enactment of the reformed Constitution of Japan in 1947.

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Empire of Vietnam

The Empire of Vietnam (Literary Chinese and Contemporary Japanese: 越南帝國; Modern Japanese: label) was a short-lived puppet state of Imperial Japan governing the former French protectorates of Annam and Tonkin between March 11 and August 25, 1945.

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Hebrew Bible

The Hebrew Bible or Tanakh (. Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. Hebrew), also known in Hebrew as Miqra (Hebrew), is the canonical collection of Hebrew scriptures, comprising the Torah, the Nevi'im, and the Ketuvim.

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Hindustani language

Hindustani is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in North India, Pakistan and the Deccan and used as the official language of India and Pakistan. Hindustani is a pluricentric language with two standard registers, known as Hindi (written in Devanagari script and influenced by Sanskrit) and Urdu (written in Perso-Arabic script and influenced by Persian and Arabic).

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History of China

The history of China spans several millennia across a wide geographical area.

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I (pronoun)

In Modern English, I is the singular, first-person pronoun.

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Indo-Aryan languages

The Indo-Aryan languages (or sometimes Indic languages) are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family.

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Japanese pronouns

Japanese pronouns are words in the Japanese language used to address or refer to present people or things, where present means people or things that can be pointed at.

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King of Malaysia

The Yang di-Pertuan Agong, unofficially known as the king of Malaysia, is the constitutional monarch and head of state of Malaysia.

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Korean Empire

The Korean Empire, officially the Empire of Korea or Imperial Korea, was a Korean monarchical state proclaimed in October 1897 by King Gojong of the Joseon dynasty.

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Korean pronouns

Korean pronouns pose some difficulty to speakers of English due to their complexity.

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Letter of credence

A letter of credence (Lettre de créance) is a formal diplomatic letter that designates a diplomat as ambassador to another sovereign state.

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Letters patent

Letters patent (plural form for singular and plural) are a type of legal instrument in the form of a published written order issued by a monarch, president or other head of state, generally granting an office, right, monopoly, title or status to a person or corporation.

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List of Chinese monarchs

The Chinese monarchs were the rulers of China during its Ancient and Imperial periods.

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Malaysia

Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.

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Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, (13 October 19258 April 2013) was a British stateswoman and Conservative politician who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.

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May Fourth Movement

The May Fourth Movement was a Chinese cultural and anti-imperialist political movement which grew out of student protests in Beijing on May 4, 1919.

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Mircea Eliade

Mircea Eliade (– April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago.

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Mit brennender Sorge

Mit brennender Sorge (in English "With deep anxiety") is an encyclical of Pope Pius XI, issued during the Nazi era on 10 March 1937 (but bearing a date of Passion Sunday, 14 March).

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Monarch

A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College Dictionary.

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Names of God in Judaism

Judaism considers some names of God so holy that, once written, they should not be erased: יהוה, rtl (Adonai), rtl (El), rtl, rtl (Shaddai), and rtl; some also include I Am that I Am.

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Non abbiamo bisogno

Non abbiamo bisogno (Italian for "We do not need") is a Roman Catholic encyclical published on 29 June 1931 by Pope Pius XI.

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Nosism

Nosism, from Latin nos 'we', is the practice of using the pronoun we to refer to oneself when expressing a personal opinion. Royal we and Nosism are Etiquette, grammatical number, personal pronouns and Sociolinguistics.

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Notre charge apostolique

Notre charge apostolique (our Apostolic Mandate) was a papal letter promulgated by Pope Pius X on August 15, 1910.

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One (pronoun)

One is an English language, gender-neutral, indefinite pronoun that means, roughly, "a person".

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Plural

The plural (sometimes abbreviated as pl., pl, or), in many languages, is one of the values of the grammatical category of number. Royal we and plural are grammatical number.

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Pluralis excellentiae

The pluralis excellentiae is the name given by early grammarians of Hebrew, such as Wilhelm Gesenius, to a perceived anomaly in the grammatical number and syntax in Hebrew. Royal we and pluralis excellentiae are grammatical number.

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Pope John Paul I

Pope John Paul I (Ioannes Paulus I; Giovanni Paolo I; born Albino Luciani; 17 October 1912 – 28 September 1978) was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City from 26 August 1978 until his death 33 days later.

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom.

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Proclamation

A proclamation (Lat. proclamare, to make public by announcement) is an official declaration issued by a person of authority to make certain announcements known.

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Pronoun

In linguistics and grammar, a pronoun (glossed) is a word or a group of words that one may substitute for a noun or noun phrase.

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Qin Shi Huang

Qin Shi Huang (February 25912 July 210 BC) was the founder of the Qin dynasty and the first emperor of China.

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Qin's wars of unification

Qin's wars of unification were a series of military campaigns launched in the late 3rd century BC by the state of Qin against the other six powers remaining in China — Han, Zhao, Yan, Wei, Chu and Qi.

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Rector (academia)

A rector (Latin for 'ruler') is a senior official in an educational institution, and can refer to an official in either a university or a secondary school.

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Secretariat of State (Holy See)

The Secretariat of State (Latin: Secretaria Status; Italian: Segreteria di Stato) is the oldest dicastery in the Roman Curia, the central papal governing bureaucracy of the Catholic Church.

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Singular they

Singular they, along with its inflected or derivative forms, them, their, theirs, and themselves (also ''themself'' and theirself), is a gender-neutral third-person pronoun. Royal we and Singular they are grammatical number.

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Sinosphere

The Sinosphere, also known as the Chinese cultural sphere, East Asian cultural sphere, or the Sinic world, encompasses multiple countries in East Asia and Southeast Asia that were historically heavily influenced by Chinese culture.

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Sovereign

Sovereign is a title that can be applied to the highest leader in various categories.

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T–V distinction

The T–V distinction is the contextual use of different pronouns that exists in some languages and serves to convey formality or familiarity. Royal we and T–V distinction are Etiquette, grammatical number, personal pronouns and Sociolinguistics.

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Trinity

The Christian doctrine of the Trinity (from 'threefold') is the central doctrine concerning the nature of God in most Christian churches, which defines one God existing in three,, consubstantial divine persons: God the Father, God the Son (Jesus Christ) and God the Holy Spirit, three distinct persons (hypostases) sharing one essence/substance/nature (homoousion).

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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Vietnamese pronouns

In general, a Vietnamese pronoun (translation, or Đại từ xưng hô) can serve as a noun phrase.

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We have become a grandmother

"We have become a grandmother" was a phrase uttered by Margaret Thatcher, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, in 1989.

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Wilhelm Gesenius

Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius (3 February 178623 October 1842) was a German orientalist, lexicographer, Christian Hebraist, Lutheran theologian, Biblical scholar and critic.

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William de Longchamp

William de Longchamp (died 1197) was a medieval Lord Chancellor, Chief Justiciar, and Bishop of Ely in England.

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Yahweh

Yahweh was an ancient Levantine deity, and the national god of the Israelite kingdoms of Israel and Judah, later the god of Judaism and its other descendant Abrahamic religions.

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1902 Arbitral award of the Andes between Argentina and Chile

The 1902 Arbitral award of the Andes between Argentina and Chile (Laudo limítrofe entre Argentina y Chile de 1902) was a British arbitration in 1902 that established the present-day boundaries between Argentina and Chile.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_we

Also known as Imperial we, Majestic plural, Papal we, Plural of majesties, Plural of majesty, Plural of respect, Pluralis Majestatis, Pluralis auctoris, Pluralis maiestatis, Royal "WE", Royal plural, Uses of Royal We, We are a grandmother.

, Singular they, Sinosphere, Sovereign, T–V distinction, Trinity, United Kingdom, Vietnamese pronouns, We have become a grandmother, Wilhelm Gesenius, William de Longchamp, Yahweh, 1902 Arbitral award of the Andes between Argentina and Chile.

Royal we, the Glossary

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Grammatical number

Personal pronouns

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