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- adverb In a
honorific manner.
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Examples
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With a portfolio valued between 10 and 20 lakhs of rupees, Mullah Badr al-Din was considered the "richest" merchant in Kabul, was honorifically referred to as baba or father by Dost Muhammad, and figured prominently in the trade between Russia and Bukhara. 50 Mullah Badr al-Din's son Khair al-Din also enjoyed a glowing mercantile reputation in Central Asia.
Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008
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Moreover, political reasons may have motivated the Tibetans to address honorifically certain rulers as
4 Buddha-Figures 2009
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Yet Aristotle is confident that Thales belongs, even if honorifically, to that group of thinkers that he calls “inquirers into nature” and distinguishes him from earlier poetical “myth-makers.”
Presocratic Philosophy Curd, Patricia 2007
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Moreover, political reasons may have motivated the Tibetans to address honorifically certain rulers as
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In this vein, the analyst Charles Rycroft explicitly applies the label "self-observation" honorifically to convey "objective self-scrutiny," when defining "Introspection" in his Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis.
How Valid Is Psychoanalysis? An Exchange Gruenbaum, Adolf 1981
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Members of the caste are honorifically addressed as Mullaji.
The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell
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"Omaye," "honorably in front," is used both condescendingly and honorifically; "you whom I condescend to allow in my presence," and "you who confer on me the honor of entering your presence."
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902
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[15] According to Judy DeMoisy, Collinsville's downtown manager and honorifically named
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As a result, Mr Greenspan – or Sir Alan as he became, honorifically, at the height of Mr Brown’s admiration for him in 2002 – is being blamed for the credit crunch and the fallout.
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