It is as well to say here, for the benefit of non-Catholics, that 'monsignori' are not necessarily bishops, nor even consecrated priests, the title being really a secular one. From Wordnik.com. [Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome] Reference
Italy; there is a register kept there of monsignori. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
He mentioned each cardinal, archbishop, and bishop by name, then several distinguished abbots and monsignori. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
Nobles and monsignori crowded around to pay homage to these women, one of whom, Lucretia, was just sixteen, and the other, Sancia, a little more than seventeen years of age. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
All the great company in Rome thronged to his saloons — Princes, Dukes, Ambassadors, artists, fiddlers, monsignori, young bears with their leaders — every rank and condition of man. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
In great numbers they poured into Italy from the kingdom of Valencia to make their fortune at the papal court as monsignori and clerks, as captains and castellans, and in any other way that suggested itself. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
An Italian cardinal had just arrived with his retinue of bishops, monsignori, priests, and monks, and Simon knew it would be some time before the procession passed all the guards and the majordomo at the main door. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
When priests took off their Mass vestments, they donned their clerical dress, with a special collar acting as a kind of barrier; and monsignori and bishops and cardinals became more flamboyantly sacred icons, in capes with red piping or large bishops 'rings. From Wordnik.com. [Scandal] Reference
A French dossier reported by the Italian press at the time of the embarrassing incident of the lefevbrian bishop Williamson, pointed the finger at several of these monsignori for the “leak” in the organisation of the Roman Curia, ascribing to them also intentions contrary to the policy of the new pontificate; and therefore on a collision course with the present Secretary of State. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
This, of course, the Vatican monsignori will never do. From Wordnik.com. [[Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White] Reference
There were some cardinals in the apartment and several monsignori. From Wordnik.com. [Lothair] Reference
It seemed that the whole court of Rome was there -- monsignori and prelates without end. From Wordnik.com. [Lothair] Reference
Purple-mantled monsignori, like emperor butterflies, floated down the aisles from sunlight into shadow. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III] Reference
Therefore, monsignori, do everything you can do; for you will get nothing from me beyond the five hundred crowns. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini] Reference
And so, would I ask, of what avail these crowds of cardinals -- these regiments of monsignori -- these battalions of bishops, Arch and simple?. From Wordnik.com. [Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General] Reference
This is unfortunate for some of the South American republics, but it will probably in some way inure to the benefit of the Vatican monsignori. From Wordnik.com. [[Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White] Reference
The system of the monsignori was never to let him be out of sight, and his absence from the critical function had not only disappointed but alarmed them. From Wordnik.com. [Lothair] Reference
No railways had yet been allowed; the Vatican monsignori feeling by instinct the truth stated by Buckle, that railways promote the coming in of new ideas. From Wordnik.com. [[Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White] Reference
All the great company in Rome thronged to his saloons -- Princes, Dukes, Ambassadors, artists, fiddlers, monsignori, young bears with their leaders -- every rank and condition of man. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
The six-score of monsignori, who in their different offices form what is styled the court of Rome, had either accompanied his holiness, or prudently secreted themselves in the strongest palaces and convents at their command. From Wordnik.com. [Lothair] Reference
King of Prussia and German Emperor is a thorn in the side of the Roman Curia; he knows, as every thinking German knows, that, with the possible exception of the British monarchy, no other is so hated by the Vatican monsignori as his own. From Wordnik.com. [[Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White] Reference
Castle of Angelo, and returned to the Quirinal; the Noble Guard sheathed their puissant blades; the six-score of monsignori reappeared in all their busy haunts and stately offices; and the court of Rome, no longer despairing of the republic, and with a spirit worthy of the Senate after. From Wordnik.com. [Lothair] Reference
Being the posterity of popes, though of worse families than the ancient nobility, they expect greater respect than my ladies the countesses and marquises will pay them; consequently they consort not, but mope in a vast palace with two mniserable tapers, and two or three monsignori, whom they are forced to court and humour, that they may not be entirely deserted. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1] Reference
The family we had gone to see, were perhaps a little too elegant for such a set-out, for I had seen them in Rome with mi-lordi and monsignori, at their six o'clock dinners; but the quiet good sense with which everybody dropped into their own distinctive habits at home, caused me to make a comparison between them and ourselves, much to the disadvantage of the latter. From Wordnik.com. [A Residence in France]
Gregorian chants, mass-brayings, purple monsignori, etc. ". From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century] Reference
List of Words and Phrases monkey-nut, 115, 126 monkey-wrench, 115, 414 monolog, 226 monoplan, 242 monoplane, 242 monsignori, 251 monsignors, 251. From Wordnik.com. [Mencken, H] Reference
He was preceded and followed by cardinals, bishops, arch-bishops, monsignori, abbots, the apostolic prothonotaries, generals of the religious orders, officers of the state, of the army, of his household, and the Guardia. From Wordnik.com. [Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One)] Reference
All the English authorities that I have consulted advocate retaining the foreign plurals of most of the loan-words in daily use, e. g., sanatoria, appendices, indices, virtuosi, formul, libretti, media, thèsdansants, monsignori. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 8. American Spelling. 6. The Treatment of Loan-Words] Reference
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