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Honorific vs Pronoun - What's the difference?

honorific | pronoun |

As nouns the difference between honorific and pronoun

is that honorific is a title (ie, mister, misses, doctor, professor ) while pronoun is (grammar) a type of noun that refers anaphorically to another noun or noun phrase, but which cannot ordinarily be preceded by a determiner and rarely takes an attributive adjective english examples include i, you, him, who, me, my, each other .

As an adjective honorific

is showing or conferring honour and respect.

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

    pronoun

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar) A type of noun that refers anaphorically to another noun or noun phrase, but which cannot ordinarily be preceded by a determiner and rarely takes an attributive adjective. English examples include I, you, him, who, me, my, each other .
  • Hypernyms

    * pro-form

    Derived terms

    * demonstrative pronoun * indefinite pronoun * intensive pronoun * interrogative pronoun * object pronoun * personal pronoun * possessive pronoun * reciprocal pronoun * reflexive pronoun * relative pronoun