appellation, byword, cryptonym, empty title, handle, in name only, nomen nudum, regardful, self-styled, title
Definitionadj. conferring or showing honor or respect
Last update: September 22, 2015
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The first form of his theory distinguishes (i.) honorific, (ii.) piacular and (iii.) mystical or sacramental sacrifices; but the latter type is traced back to the same cycle of ideas as that in which the piacular sacrifice originated. [Please select]
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The honorific prefix "Sir" may in that case refer to clerkly qualities rather than to knighthood. [Please select]
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Under ordinary circumstances "death" would have been good enough: it is only in speaking of his own ruler's death that the honorific word "collapse" is used. [Please select]
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Those which were purely honorific, although valued by the nobility, who possessed them, outraged the sense of equality in the nation. [Please select]
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