Definitions for honorific

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honorific hon·or·if·ic

Spelling: [on-uh-rif-ik]

IPA: /ˌɒn əˈrɪf ɪk/

Honorific is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 179 anagrams from letters in honorific (cfhiinoor).

Definitions for honorific

adjective

1. Also, honorifical. doing or conferring honor.
2. conveying honor, as a title or a grammatical form used in speaking to or about a superior, elder, etc.

noun

1. (in certain languages, as Chinese and Japanese) a class of forms used to show respect, especially in direct address.
2. a title or term of respect.

Origin of honorific

First recorded in 1640-50, honorific is from the Latin word honōrificus honor-making. See honor, -i-, -fic

Examples for honorific

It is a honorific form of address, not the symbol for devoted love.

The diplomas now issued to students in Law and Medicine are only honorific.

Associated words: timocracy, timocratic, honorary, honorific.

Not only is the honorific awarded to him, but is to be used by all his sons and by their sons.

Here was a suitable moment for the use of the honorific she felt.

She does not carry the honorific title HRH as she is descended through the female line.

The meaning of this title may have been honorific, but it is also striking.

If these articles of consumption are costly, they are felt to be noble and honorific.

Presumably this plural is honorific for the Honoured Mother Mhm.

Honoured, in this sentence, represents Bburs honorific plural.