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Webster 1913 Edition

Monseigneur

‖

Monˊseiˊgneur′

,

Noun.

;

pl.

Messeigneurs

(#)

.

[F., fr.

mon

my +

seigneur

lord, L.

senior

older. See

, and cf.

.]

My lord; – a title in France of a person of high birth or rank;

as,

Monseigneur

the Prince, or

Monseigneur

the Archibishop

. It was given, specifically, to the dauphin, before the Revolution of 1789. (Abbrev.

Mgr.

)