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profoundly honored

worthy of being honored; entitled to honor and respect

of or befitting a lord

of or belonging to or constituting the hereditary aristocracy especially as derived from feudal times

the month following July and preceding September

a month in the Gregorian calendar

the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752

celebration in the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Dormition in the Eastern Orthodox Church