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honorific | faithfully |

As a noun honorific

is a title (ie, mister, misses, doctor, professor ).

As a adjective honorific

is showing or conferring honour and respect.

As a adverb faithfully is

in a faithful manner.

honorific

English

(wikipedia honorific)

Alternative forms

* honorifick (qualifier) * honourific

Noun

(en noun)
  • A title. (i.e., Mister, Misses, Doctor, Professor )
  • A term of respect; respectful language.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Showing or conferring honour and respect.
  • * 1996 , T. P. Wiseman, “The Minucii and Their Monument”, in Jerzy Linderski (editor), Imperium Sine Fine: T. Robert S. Broughton and the Roman Republic , Franz Steiner Verlag, ISBN 978-3-515-06948-9, page 59:
    • According to Pliny, the custom of setting up honorific statues on columns was a comparably ancient one.
  • Based on or valuing honor
  • * 2010 , Orlando Patterson, “The mechanisms of cultural reproduction: explaining the puzzle of persistence”, in John R. Hall et al. (editors), Handbook of Cultural Sociology , Taylor & Francis, ISBN 978-0-415-47445-0, page 143:
    • In the honorific cultural process, individuals (especially men) are extremely sensitive to real or perceived insults, and

    Derived terms

    * honorifically

    faithfully

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • In a faithful manner.
    • The CD reproduces music faithfully.
    I have been faithfully married for the past twenty years.
  • (US) A conventional formula for ending a letter, used when the salutation addresses the person for whom the letter is intended using an honorific.

    • Synonyms

    * (formula for ending correspondence) yours faithfully (UK)

    Antonyms

    * unfaithfully

    Derived terms

    * yours faithfully

    See also

    * sincerely * truly