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Definition of Honorifics
1. honorific [n] - See also: honorific
Lexicographical Neighbors of Honorifics
Literary usage of Honorifics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Handbook of Colloquial Japanese by Basil Hall Chamberlain (1898)
"honorifics. 392. No language in the world is more saturated with honorific idioms
than Japanese. These idioms affect, not only the vocabulary, ..."
2. The American Language: An Inquiry Into the Development of English in the by Henry Louis Mencken (1921)
"But the record must have an end. 3. honorifics Among the honorifics in everyday
use in England and the United States one finds many ..."
3. Japan Today by James Augustin Brown Scherer (1904)
"THE AWFUL JAPANESE LANGUAGE €[ What it is Not—honorifics— Chinese Complications—The
Blunders of Beginners—" Why I Study English" ..."
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