Definition of Honorifically

1. Adverb. In a honorific manner. ¹

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Definition of Honorifically

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Honorifically

honorary degree
honorary officer
honorary society
honorary trust
honorary trusts
honored
honoree
honorees
honorer
honorers
honorific
honorificabilitudinitatibus
honorificabilitudinities
honorificabilitudinity
honorifical
honorifically (current term)
honorifics
honoring
honorless
honorous
honors
honostyled
honour
honour'd
honour killing
honour killings
honour roll
honour rolls
honour system
honourabilities

Literary usage of Honorifically

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"I notice in Coorg two instances of tarn used honorifically, which are not in Tamil—viz., ... honorifically ..."

2. A Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Or South-Indian Family of Languages by Robert Caldwell (1875)
"... father; from tarn, used honorifically, and appan, father. This word b sometimes pronounced by Brahmans in the ancient manner, ..."

3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1898)
"... the suggested evolution of the god-eating sacraments of lower religions from the cannibal practice of honorifically eating one's dead relations; ..."

4. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1902)
"... a philosopher approved and honorifically welcomed; a stranger only amongst churls and savages; the awakener of nodding spirits, the queller of insolent ..."

5. Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society by Hakluyt Society (1888)
"... the Night with an Entertainment to all the principall English inhabitants." 1 A word used in Western India honorifically for a native writer ; Sanskrit, ..."

6. History of the World War by Frank Herbert Simonds (1920)
"Beaten there, even he will not long hope to hold the relatively insignificant although honorifically named lines behind. In truth, despite its magnificence, ..."

7. Modern Studies by Oliver Elton (1907)
"... known in the chief academies of Europe ; a philosopher approved and honorifically welcomed ; a stranger only amongst churls and savages ; the awakener ..."

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