WordNet
n. an identifying appellation signifying status or function: e.g. Mr. or General; "the professor didn't like his friends to use his formal title" [syn: title]
Usage examples of "title of respect".
Kelson made the introductions, using the title of respect from the inner planets for the stranger, who seated himself without invitation across the table from Hosteen and proceeded to survey the Terran with an appraisal the other found insolent.
Her high-pitched voice was almost sweet, but it held a sharpness that emphasized the lack of any title of respect.
Though captain no longer, Lewis was a big enough man in Nash County for Caudell to keep on giving him the title of respect.
It is simply important in my post that no one be insulted by those around me failing to use a title of respect.
Slim and cool-faced, Alviarin wore the Keeper's narrow stole in white, matching her dress, to show she had been raised from the White, but in her mouth 'Mother' became less a title of respect and more an address to an equal.