Brewer's: Serene

(2 syl.). A title given to certain German princes. Those princes who used to hold under the empire were entitled Serene or Most Serene Highnesses.

“ `Let us clearly understand each other.' `All serene,' responded Foster.” —Watson; The Web of the Spider chap. viii.

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