In an English-speaking context, family names are most often used to refer to a stranger or in a formal setting, and are often used with a title or honorific such as Mr, Mrs, Ms, Miss, Dr, and so on.

Since the Early Modern period, the title of knight is purely honorific, usually bestowed by a monarch, as in the British honours system, often for non-military service to the country.

Instead, party members answerable to or controlled by the party held these posts, often as honorific posts as a reward for their long years of service to the party.

" Literature " is a highly ambiguous term: at its broadest, it can mean any sequence of words that has been preserved for transmission in some form or other ( including oral transmission ); more narrowly, it is often used to designate imaginative works such as stories, poems, and plays ; more narrowly still, it is used as an honorific and applied only to those works which are considered to have particular merit.

* As a result, because emperors would not have mothers, they often honored their wet nurses with the honorific title, " Nurse Empress Dowager " ( 保太后, bǎo tài hòu ).

In Somali society, it is reserved as an honorific for senior Muslim leaders and clerics ( wadaad ), and is often abbreviated to " Sh ".

The title of Count was also often conferred by the monarch as an honorific title for special services rendered, without an attaching feudal estate ( countship, county ): it was merely a title, with or without a domain name attached to it.

The honorific was often accorded to the untitled gentry ( e. g., knights or younger sons of noblemen ), priests, or other people of distinction.

An honorific is a word or expression ( often a pronoun ) that conveys respect when used in addressing or referring to a person.

Unlike the Ellimist, who has several names, Crayak only has one known title, though the Drode sometimes refers to him by honorific, and often ironic, titles such as " Great Crayak " or " Compassionate Crayak.

Han Fei is his name, while zi (, meaning " Master ") was often added to philosophers ' names as an honorific — such as Kong Fuzi () for Confucius — thus Han Feizi () can denote the book written by him, but is also used in reference to the person himself.

The kun suffix on " Domo-kun ," the name used to describe the character in the Japanese versions, is a Japanese honorific often used with young males.

Mater, the Latin word for " mother ," is often used as an honorific for goddesses, including Vesta, who was represented as a virgin.

* Grenadier — traditional term for heavy infantry, adopted during World War II from mid-war onward as a morale-building honorific often indicative of low-grade formations.

It is also often conflated with systems of honorific speech in linguistics, which are grammatical or morphological ways of encoding the relative social status of speakers.

For example, in Gujarati, for an uncle who is your mother's brother, the replacement honorific maama ( long " a " then short " a ") is used, and a male friend will often earn the suffix honorific of bhai.

Hajji (,, al-ḥajjī or الحاج al-ḥājj,,,,, pilgrim ; sometimes spelled Hadji or Haji ) or El-Hajj, is an honorific title given to a Muslim person who has successfully completed the Hajj to Mecca, and is often used to refer to an elder, since it can take time to accumulate the wealth to fund the travel.

However in practice that formal honorific was less often used than the more traditionally French styles of Monsieur, Madame or Mademoiselle.

* An honorific often used instead of, or prefixed to, the name of the Catholic Pope

However, his elder brother Eberhard died, and while Albrecht did not technically inherit the honorific, he began to call himself " The Count ," and is often referred to that way.

As a rough guide, an honorific can often stand alone or be prefixed to another title ( such as Mr. Mayor, Mister President, or Your Honor ) as terms of address, without an attached surname.

Often however these titles are not acceded by the modern monarchy, either because the family is registered as untitled nobility and may thus only use the honorific or predicate, or because the family has never requested to be registered but possesses a grant of nobility which predates the founding of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in 1815 ; the latter are often Habsburg in origin.

The author of a continuation of Dionysius's Computus, writing in 616, described Dionysius as a " most learned abbot of the city of Rome ", and the Venerable Bede accorded him the honorific abbas, which could be applied to any monk, especially a senior and respected monk, and does not necessarily imply that Dionysius ever headed a monastery ; indeed, Dionysius's friend Cassiodorus stated in Institutiones that he was still only a monk late in life.

As the daughter of an Earl, she is accorded the honorific courtesy title " Lady " and thus customarily addressed formally as " Lady Antonia ".

Those in the council are accorded the use of an honorific style and post-nominal letters, as well as various signifiers of precedence.

( but there is no customary honorific accorded to a female monarch's consort, as he is usually granted a specific style ).

He was one of the few Tibetan Lamas accorded the honorific title of " His Holiness ".

" It was an honorific originally given to those who had Smicha at the beginning of the first millennium, though because vowels were not written at the time, it is impossible to know if it was pronounced rah-bee or r-bee.

The name United Empire Loyalists is an honorific given after the fact to those American Loyalists who resettled in British North America and other British Colonies as an act of fealty to King George III after the British defeat in the American Revolutionary War and prior to the Treaty of Paris.

Academics who stay in academe without a professorship may receive either a salaried permanent staff appointment ( where those still exist ) as lecturer or equivalent, and / or the purely honorific title of " außerplanmäßiger Professor " ( abbreviated " apl.

Over time, the title of executive producer became applied to a wider range of roles, from those responsible for arranging financing to an honorific without actual management duties.

Honorary degree recipients, particularly those who have no prior academic qualifications, have sometimes been criticized if they insist on being called " Doctor " as a result of their award, as the honorific may mislead the general public about their qualifications.

" Mrs " is an honorific bestowed on those members of the Guild who rise to the ownership of their own premises.

Mrs ( British English only ) or Mrs. ( American English and British English ) ( Standard English pronunciation ) is a commonly used English honorific used for women, usually for those who are married and who do not instead use another title, such as Dr, Lady, or Dame.

monsignori, is the form of address for those members of the clergy of the Catholic Church holding certain ecclesiastical honorific titles.

An All-America team is an honorary sports team composed of outstanding amateur players — those considered the best players of a specific season for each team position — who in turn are given the honorific " All-America " and typically referred to as " All-American athletes ", or simply " All-Americans ".

Eventually, Song Jiang and several other former outlaws are posthumously granted honorific titles, but those responsible for his death are never brought to justice.

The CIMA certificate in Islamic finance ( Cert IF ) is the first qualification offered by a professional chartered accounting body to focus on the fast growing sector of Islamic finance. In 2011, CertIF was upgraded to a Diploma degree and renamed as CIMA Diploma in Islamic Finance and all those who would pass this diploma, or had passed CertIF, would be allowed to use the honorific letters CDIF after their name.

The title of Colonel was apparently honorific, not uncommon in those times.

At the entrance to those two rooms her name was displayed with the honorific words Sama and Dono.

This memorial commemorated the endurance of those who were besieged, who were given the honorific title, " Rats of Tobruk ".

All Senators of the College have the honorific, The Honourable, before their titles, while those who are also Privy Counsellors or peers have the honorific, The Right Honourable.

For example, it is customary to address people holding those positions as Alderman, Chairman, or General Secretary ; but these titles are not honorific.

In later periods of Islamic history the honorific title of ghāzī was assumed by those Muslim rulers who showed conspicuous success in extending the domains of Islam, and eventually the honorific became exclusive to them, much as the Roman title imperator became the exclusive property of the supreme ruler of the Roman state and his family.

The club also has two honorific categories of membership to recognize and honor those who have had a positive and notable association with the club, whether as members of the Princeton University community or as individuals whose principal affiliation with the Princeton community is their association with the Tiger Inn.

Ja ' far al-Sadiq believed that rafida was an honorific given first by God and preserved in the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament: he mentioned that there were 70 men among the people of Pharaoh who rejected him and his ways and rather joined Moses, and God called those 70 men Rafida.