"Compellation" Quotes from Famous Books
... these mistakes. I confess therefore that indeed in the declination of the Latin tongue, and when there scarce could be found out words enough to supply the modern ambition of Titles, Serenissimus as several other words hath grown in fashion for a compellation of lesser as well as greater Princes, and yet befits both the one and the other. So there is Serenissima Respublica Veneta, Serenitates Electoriae, Serenitates Regiae, even as the word Highness or Celsitudo befits a Duke, a Prince, ... — Andrew Marvell • Augustine Birrell |