词汇 | honorific |
释义 | honorific adjective[ before noun ] formaluk /ˌɒn.ərˈɪf.ɪk/ us /ˌɑː.nəˈrɪf.ɪk/ showing or giving honour or respect: 表示尊敬的 an honorific title尊称 The "Dhammapada" contains the words of the Indian sage called the Buddha, an honorific title meaning "the Awakened One". Showing respect and admiration admiration admire admiring admiringly approving approvingly forelock freedom fulsome fulsomely fulsomeness glorify grovelling pay your respectsidiom philogynist philogyny put someone on a pedestalidiom regild respectfully worshipful honorific noun[ C ] formaluk /ˌɒn.ərˈɪf.ɪk/us a title or word used to show honour or respect : He was known as Sam "Bahadur", or Sam the Brave, an honorific given to him by the Indian army. In those days, it was more common for people to use honorifics when addressing one another. She is not entitled to use that honorific. They elected him class president, an honorific without much responsibility. My study looks at the change in the use of honorifics in Japanese. Showing respect and admiration admiration admire admiring admiringly approving approvingly forelock freedom fulsome fulsomely fulsomeness glorify grovelling pay your respectsidiom philogynist philogyny put someone on a pedestalidiom regild respectfully worshipful Examples of honorifichonorific Civic monuments were built, and statues and honorific inscriptions were set up. The consistency of overall deference in discourse depends on the congruence of deference effects marked independently by several honorific lexemes. When language users describe honorific usage, they often formulate extended narratives about the uses of honorific forms. But ' honorific titles ' denoting age, which might be derogatory or deferential might be applied to women anywhere between 34 and 80. Once it is abstracted from all these considerations, a lexical register of honorific forms is nothing more than a paradigm of words on a page. Consequently, if an utterance contains a single honorific item, its overall deference effects may be locally unclear, or unconstruable. Here he includes epithets, certain attributive adjectives, and honorifics. What does it mean to be "altruistic" in that morally honorific sense when one is forced to so act by more powerful individuals? Such motivation shapes the significance of honorific usage, imbuing it with more than one type of value. The obvious difference is that, like much truth-conditional meaning, the proper use of honorifics is a matter of formal study in these cultures. They received more honorific awards and were more likely to participate in special cultural events. The enduring effect of register names is that they fashion culturally authoritative stereotypes about the uses of honorific language. The agency of this inert construction appears to be purely fictive as well, a matter of honorific speech merely. In doing so, the linguist has differentiated a lexical register of honorific forms. The second type of scenario is introduced as the obverse, "grownup" /"honorific things" case in line 18. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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