Honorific vs Pronoun - What's the difference?
honorific | pronoun |
A title. (i.e., Mister, Misses, Doctor, Professor )
A term of respect; respectful language.
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,
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,
(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 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
English
(wikipedia honorific)Alternative forms
* honorifick (qualifier) * honourificNoun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)page 59:
- According to Pliny, the custom of setting up honorific statues on columns was a comparably ancient one.
page 143:
- In the honorific cultural process, individuals (especially men) are extremely sensitive to real or perceived insults, and