1. honorific - Noun
2. honorific - Adjective
3. honorific - Adjective Satellite
Conferring honor; tending to honor.
Source: Webster's dictionarythe Japanese use many honorifics Source: Internet
honorific social status commonly attaches to membership in a recognized profession Source: Internet
After being forced by the sovereign to resign, he received the purely honorific title of "Duke of Lauenburg", without the duchy itself and the sovereignty that would have transformed his family into a mediatized house. Source: Internet
Animators Haruhiko Mikimoto and Shōji Kawamori had used the term among themselves as an honorific second-person pronoun since the late 1970s. Source: Internet
Bacup received a charter of incorporation in 1882, giving it honorific borough status and its own elected town government, consisting of a mayor, aldermen and councillors to oversee local affairs. Source: Internet
Another form, でございます de gozaimasu, which is the more formal version of de arimasu, in the etymological sense a conjugation of でござる de gozaru and an honorific suffix -ます -masu, is also used in some situations and is very polite. Source: Internet