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honorific
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Honorific \Hon`or*if"ic\, a. [See Honor, -fy, and -ic.]
Conferring honor; tending to honor.
--London Spectator.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, from Latin honorificus "that which does honor," from honorem (see honor (n.)) + -ficus "making," from stem of facere "make, do" (see factitious). As a noun, by 1867.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Showing or conferring honour and respect. 2 Based on or valuing honor alt. 1 A title. (''e.g., Mister, Misses, Doctor, Professor'') 2 A term of respect; respectful language. n. 1 A title. (''e.g., Mister, Misses, Doctor, Professor'') 2 A term of respect; respectful language.
WordNet
adj. conferring or showing honor or respect; "honorific social status commonly attaches to membership in a recognized profession"
n. an expression of respect; "the Japanese use many honorifics"
Wikipedia
An honorific title is a word or expression with connotations conveying esteem or respect when used in addressing or referring to a person. Sometimes, the term "honorific" is used in a more specific sense to refer to an honorary academic title. It is also often conflated with systems of honorific speech in linguistics, which are grammatical or morphological ways of encoding the relative social status of speakers.
Typically, honorifics are used as a style in the grammatical third person, and as a form of address in the second person. Use in the first person, by the honored dignitary, is uncommon or considered very rude and egotistical. Some languages have anti-honorific (despective or humilific) first person forms (expressions such as "your most humble servant" or "this unworthy person") whose effect is to enhance the relative honor accorded to the person addressed.
Usage examples of "honorific".
That is, unless the person to whom the deference is being expressed prefers such a honorific be used.
Most Klingons proudly state their honorifics when they introduce themselves, almost as if it were a silent shout of victory.
Maori honorific, it had to have been one of the newcomers Auntie Kapur had sent to watch over Alex and his team.
French honorifics in use throughout the System were some Reb badge of membership.
Before Born, an honorific title suggesting that the person addressed is older, hence presumably more learned and entitled to respect on account of seniority.
As an accommodation to both the New Republic and the Imperial Remnant, Poinard had retained his honorific as captain of the flagship, while Sutel had been designated task force commander.
Surprised, Nemo realized the boatbuilder had used the title as an honorific.
Japanese idioms, constructions, and honorific and agglutinative particles.
And to give her this redundant honor, she takes a male honorific, ro, which means 'great teacher,' and appends it to a woman's name!
And to give her this redundant honor, she takes a male honorific, ro, which means ‘great teacher,’ and appends it to a woman’s name!
More vital was the three-member Grand Council: the Chancellor and Grand Secretary—largely honorifics by now, but whose countersignatures were needed to authenticate any Imperial decree—and the Prime Minister, who oversaw the ministries that actually administered the Empire.
The Buddha3 and Mohammed4 and their companions and many Christian saints are incrusted with a heavy jewelry of anecdotes which are meant to be honorific, but are simply abgeschmackt and silly, and form a touching expression of man's misguided propensity to praise.
The Bureau's field staff was recruited from the Army, but Perennius would not have guessed that Anguilus had the right to use that particular honorific.
The nature of these added particles may be: Negative, Intensitive, Honorific, Hypothetical, Interrogative, Imperative, Directional, Futuritive or Historical, Relational or Descriptive.
In the cloud-cuckoo-land of Videssian honorifics, spatharios was the vaguest, but few imperials would poke fun at their own pretensions.