Holiness
Appearance
See also: holiness
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]Holiness (plural Holinesses)
- (countable) Used in connection with His or Your to address the leader of some religious traditions, notably the pope.
- 2021, The Extraordinary Life of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama: An Illuminated Journey, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 47:
- 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.
Translations
[edit]used to address the pope
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