honorific

Modifies a noun

• title: The title of Caliph came to be added to the many honorific titles attached to the Ottoman Sultan.
• language: Today too, women often use honorific language to show they are well educated and come from a high social class.
• inscription: Relevant texts in translation are used to supplement the material remains, and there is a workshop on reading Latin honorific inscriptions.
• decree: This fragment of an honorific decree for a civic benefactor may be related to Iscrizioni di Cos ED 201.
• expression: Second, in Chinese linguistic politeness honorific expressions have fundamental role ( cf.
• order: What they did do, was to render the Russian Order of St John to be an honorific Order.

Modifying Another Word

purely: VI; the town was said to have a mayor, a purely honorific office, in the early 18th cent, ; Bodl.