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Compellation   Listen
noun
Compellation  n.  Style of address or salutation; an appellation. "Metaphorical compellations." "He useth this endearing compellation, "My little children."" "The peculiar compellation of the kings in France is by "Sire," which is nothing else but father."






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... 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



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