A naming taboo is a cultural taboo against speaking or writing the given names of exalted persons in China and neighboring nations in the ancient Chinese cultural sphere.

Since the 16th century "pantheon" can also refer in a secular sense to the set of a society's exalted persons.

Through impeachment, Parliament acted to curb the abuses of exalted persons who would otherwise have free rein.

Brora had been as nervous as a patient in a dentist's waiting room at the prospect of being questioned by such an exalted person.

Think of Mycroft's note, of the Admiralty, the Cabinet, the exalted person who waits for news.

He Who Watches was ushered into the presence of his T'-carais by four human guards and roundly ignored while that exalted person offered them food and drink.

But I would not draw the pure and exalted person of the queen into this net with which we wanted to surround Earl Surrey.

They never saw a lord or a lady-the most exalted person they would ever see would be a page in royal livery.

As per the custom, although the Gajapati King has been considered the most exalted person in the Kalingan kingdom, still he renders the menial service to Jagannath.

According to Thenkalais, exalted persons need not perform duties such as sandhyavandanam; they do so only to set a good example.