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honorifically
adverb
formaluk /ˌɒn.ərˈɪf.ɪ.kəl.i/ us /ˌɑː.nəˈrɪf.ɪ.ɪ.kəl.i/
in a way that is intended to show honour and respect, often without expecting much to be done in return:
He was honorifically made a trustee of the bank.
In many languages, the third person pronoun is honorifically used when referring to a superior, either in age or any other social attribute.
Some of them speak with regional accents and idioms, even when speaking honorifically.
These employees can be paid only for the work that they actually do, and not honorifically.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
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pay your respectsidiom
philogynist
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put someone on a pedestalidiom
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