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Definition of Honorific
1. Adjective. Conferring or showing honor or respect. "Honorific social status commonly attaches to membership in a recognized profession"
2. Noun. An expression of respect. "The Japanese use many honorifics"
Definition of Honorific
1. a. Conferring honor; tending to honor.
Definition of Honorific
1. Noun. A title. (''i.e., Mister, Misses, Doctor, Professor'') ¹
2. Noun. A term of respect; respectful language. ¹
3. Adjective. Showing or conferring honour and respect. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Honorific
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Honorific
Literary usage of Honorific
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Subject honorific, object honorific. Forms in which the object is ... Finally,
in the first person the non-honorific and honorific forms depending on the ..."
2. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"Honorific Demonstrative Pronouns.—I have deferred till now the consideration of
a peculiar class of honorific demonstratives, which are found only in Telugu ..."
3. A Grammar of the Japanese Spoken Language by William George Aston (1888)
"It may be taken that the honorific forms are chiefly appropriated to verbs, ...
It will be seen below that there is a considerable variety of honorific and ..."
4. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"In all the Dravidian dialects the plural is used as an honorific singular when
the highest degree of respect is meant to be expressed ; but when a somewhat ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"(1) To inscriptions in the narrower sense belong honorific inscriptions and a
large class of eulogies tenu?" °^ Damasus. Partly to this class and partly to ..."
6. A Dissertation on the Proper Names of Panjâbîs: With Special Reference to by Richard Carnac Temple (1883)
"As a matter of fact these honorific class names are common all over India, and
much more extended than one would at first suppose. Often, too, on enquiry it ..."
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