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Date: 1500-1600
Language: Italian
Origin: monsignore, from French monseigneur

Monsignor

 noun
     
Related topics: Christianity
Mon‧si‧gnor
RRC used when speaking to or about a priest of high rank in the Roman Catholic Church:
Monsignor Delgard
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