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Honorific meaning
A person's title, such as "Mrs" or "Doctor". | A term of respect; respectful language. | A word or word form expressing the speaker's respect for the hearer or the referent.
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Example sentences (20)
And though he prefers not to use the honorific, he’s technically a “Sir,” after being recognized in 2014 for his “services to law and criminal justice” as the former head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), the public prosecutor for England and Wales.
Recalling the simple living and selfless actions of Karpoori Thakur, the official handle of Rashtrapati Bhavan said: “Working tirelessly to improve the lives of the disadvantaged people, he commanded high regard and had earned the honorific, ‘Jan-Nayak’.
Parcak, along with many others, said the suggestion that Biden not use the honorific was blatantly sexist and emblematic of the way many women in academia face the questioning or denigration of their credentials by their male colleagues.
The author of the op-ed urged first lady-in-waiting Dr Jill Biden to drop the honorific "Dr" as she hadn't "delivered a child".
He must be called by his rightful honorific—America’s first white president.
Rosenberg also noted that the decision was unique among naming conventions on campus, because it was purely honorific.
They are nothing compared to languages like Japanese, which have bamboozingly difficult “honorific” systems.
In contrast to actual citizenship—which has attendant rights and privileges—this was solely an honorific bestowed by a motion in Parliament, and so parliamentarians should be allowed to vote their conscience on a motion to revoke it.
After being forced by the sovereign to resign, he received the purely honorific title of "Duke of Lauenburg", without the duchy itself and the sovereignty that would have transformed his family into a mediatized house.
Although he earned his honorific of "The Great" ("Μέγας") from Christian historians long after he had died, he could have claimed the title on his military achievements and victories alone.
Although it was recognized as a "historical region", that status was strictly honorific.
Animators Haruhiko Mikimoto and Shōji Kawamori had used the term among themselves as an honorific second-person pronoun since the late 1970s.
Another form, でございます de gozaimasu, which is the more formal version of de arimasu, in the etymological sense a conjugation of でござる de gozaru and an honorific suffix -ます -masu, is also used in some situations and is very polite.
Another result is that the pronominal system is complex and full of honorific variations, just a few of which are shown in the table below.
A Radiate of Aurelian A Radiate of Aurelian Aurelian returned to Rome and won his last honorific from the Senate – Restitutor Orbis ("Restorer of the World").
As a personal honorific, both "Hasid" and "Tzadik" could be applied independently to a same individual with both different qualities.
Augustus had (by his last will) granted the feminine form of this honorific ( Augusta ) to his wife.
Bacup received a charter of incorporation in 1882, giving it honorific borough status and its own elected town government, consisting of a mayor, aldermen and councillors to oversee local affairs.
Champlain did not begin using the honorific de in his name until at least 1610, when he married, the year King Henry was murdered.
For example, the -san suffix ("Mr" "Mrs." or "Miss") is an example of honorific language.