honorific

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  1. adjective Conferring or showing respect or honor.
  2. noun A title, phrase, or grammatical form conveying respect, used especially when addressing a social superior.

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Examples

  • Flinx leaned close, trying to make out broken words in low thranx. —  Flinx In Flux
  • "You have slumbered here, Ancient One" - the honorific was heavy with mockery as Sleet maneuvered in a tight circle - —  The Dragons of Chaos
  • Though it was at most a mild honorific, and a human one at that, it was not what Jemunu-jah had expected to hear. —  Drowning World
  • "the passion for honorific-abilitudinity is a vice of Asiatic languages, which a Scripture translator, above all others, ought to beware of countenancing." {139a} —  The Life of George Borrow
  • No honorific, the necromancer mused. —  Into the Thinking Kingdoms
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin honōrificus : honor, honōr-, honor + -ficus, -fic.

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  1. = French honorifique = Spanish Portuguese honorifico = Italian onorifico, from Latin honorificus, that does honor, honorable, from honor, honor, + -ficus, from facere, do, make.
 

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/ɑnəˈrɪfɪk/
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