honorific

How To Use honorific In A Sentence

• The sense of class worthiness, that is to say of status, of a honorific differentiation of the sexes according to a distinction between superior and inferior intellectual dignity, survives in a vigorous form in these corporations of the aristocracy of learning. The theory of the leisure class; an economic study of institutions
• He was given the honorific title of national chairman.
• In 1603, he was given the honorific of "Abbasi," meaning "of Abbas. Museum Blogs
• Since 1982, in order to encourage the publication of books of scientific and general interest, the IAPN has been giving an honorific prize for the best numismatic publication of the year.
• His son, Kim Jong Il, fought off a number of contenders before being announced as successor, and has earned himself the honorific title of ‘Dear Leader’.
• On the flip side, though, it's a nearly infallible sign of personality problems when a PhD insists on the honorific ‘Dr.’
• Berg himself is so above it all that even his wife refers to him, at least to the press, only by an honorific.
• Quoting sources in North Korea, the exile radio station said North Koreans now call leader Kim Jong-il simply by his name without using any honorific, which is unprecedented in the North. English.chosun.com : Total
• Twinam begins and concludes her book with the story of a Medellín merchant Gabriel Muñoz who initiated a law suit because a royal official did not address him by the honorific title Don.
• Although a mother, grandmother and widow, Rizza gets angry when addressed as ‘Ibu’, the standard Indonesian honorific for women of her status.