What is the history of honorific titles?
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honorific is a word or expression that conveys esteem or respect and is used in addressing or referring to a person. "Honorific" may refer broadly to the style of language or particular words used, or, as in this article, to specific words used to convey honor to one perceived as a social superior. Sometimes the term is used not quite correctly to refer to a title of honour (honorary title).\n\nHonorifics are usually placed immediately before or after the name of the subject. They may also be used to denote occupation, such as "Doctor", "Father" (for a priest), or "Professor". Some honorifics can act as complete replacements for a name, as in "sir" or "ma'am". Subordinates will often use honorifics as punctuation before asking a superior a question or after responding to an order, "Yes, sir".\n\n\nHonorifics in various languages and cultures\nEnglish honorifics are usually limited to formal situations.\n\nJapanese honorifics are similar to English titles like "Mister" and "Miss," but in Japanese, which has many honorifics, their use is mandatory in many formal and informal social situations.\n\nKorean honorifics vary according to social distinction. The Korean language also distinguishes social differences with special noun and verb endings.\n\nIn Ancient Rome honorifics like Augustus turned into titles over time, see also: Template:Roman government.\n\nIndian honorifics abound, covering formal and informal relationships for social, commercial, spiritual and generational links. Honorifics may be prefix, suffix or replacement types. There are many variations across India. 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".\n\n\nOpposition\nPeople who have a strong sense of egalitarianism, such as Quakers and certain socialists, eschew honorifics. When addressing or referring to someone, they will use the person's name, an informal pronoun, or some other style implying social equality, such as "brother", "friend", or "comrade".
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Grand Poobah, as I learned it... probably colloquial either way. \n\nMy favorite is High Mucky Muck.\n\nThey are titles generally to mock some of the old, mainly Masonic titles.  (Grand Master, Worthy Grand Patron, Supreme Worthy Advisor)
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at different stages in a females life she deserves a different title.\n\nMs. is for a woman that you are not sure if she is married\n\nMrs. is for a woman that is married\n\nMiss is for young ladies that are under the age of 21
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colonel\ndaiquiri\ninoculate\nlicense\nmisspell\nperseverance\nvacuum
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How the Peerage is Ranked:\nDuke\nMarquess\nEarl\nViscount\nBaron\nI'll get back to you on the rest.
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Mrs. is the honorific for married women.  .\n\nMs is an invented honorific that does not signify marital status either way.  It was designed specifically to conceal the marital status of a woman, for those who feel that a woman's status should not be defined by whether she has a husband or not.\n\nAlthough many divorced women use "Ms", it does NOT signify a divorced woman.  Married, unmarried, divorced or widowed women can ALL choose to be known as Ms.  Very often Ms is also used when the marital status of the woman in question is unknown, so as to avoid assumptions of marital status.\n\nMiss is an unmarried woman.
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Honorary means that you haven't exactly done anything to receive the award.  You may have done something  in the community, so your Alma mater will give you an honorary award to say thank you.  An Honorable award means that you worked hard and you get an award saying that you achieved your goal.
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ilker_murat is right, but this word has a historical background too. This term derives from 494 BC, when the first tribunes in ancient Rome were elected to protect and represent the 'plebs' (less well-born people with relatively low income - they were rather disdained by the 'patricians' = Rome's aristocracy) in the political life. They were enabled to prevent decisions that weren't advantegous for this social group by vetoing (that is to officially refuse to approve a statute).
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A resume title is similiar to an objective. For instance a resume title could be:\n\nTime Magazine's 2004 Person of the Year\n\nEnergetic Fitness Instructor with Proven Track Record\n\nThe title is going to grab the employer's attention and make them want to read more.\n\nhttp://www.effective-resume-writing.com
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emeriti \n\n(singular form emeritus, which you often hear said of a retired professor)
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Something like "manliness is the door to respect."\nThe Latin "virtus" is in classical Latin not the same as "virtue", it means "male" virtues, like courage and strength. It is connected to "vir"=man, and "honor" had also a slight shift in meaning since it's been taken over into English.
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It is latin.  \n\nCum Laude:  'with honors'.\nMagna Cum Laude:  'with high honors'.\nSumma Cum Laude:  'with highest honors'.\n\n\nThe *** is  the latin word c-u-m, which means 'with'.\n\n[C'mon, Yahoo,... is the editing of this word really necessary?...]
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Seniority, I guess.  We're a group of girl-friends all of whom are my best friends. However, the one who holds the official title is the one I've known the longest and grew up with. I've known her for almost 20 years now so we have a lot of history together.  Plus, she's always the one I turn to whenever I have major problems.
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its all terribly, terribly complicated depending on the nation and sometimes time period involved. however, the short answer is that a duchess is generally higher ranking than a countess. :D\n\ntitles are hereditary or gained through marriage; they are used today because...i don't know, wouldn't it be fun to tell someone you're a baroness by blood? :) as far as i know personally there's no perk to being a peer. maybe some people respect you more. \n\nthe order for england/gb/uk, ireland, and scotland in general is\nduke, marquess, earl/count, viscount, baron\n\nfrench dukes, marquesses, counts, earls, bottom of this page:\nhttp://www.heraldica.org/topics/odegard/titlefaq.htm\n\nall the different titles here:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title\n\nBUT this is probably what you want:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peerage\n\n\nPS- i think a canoness has to do with religion and not nobility or peerage (more in the group of abbesses and abbots)
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Author's last name, first name. "Title of article." Title of complete work. (if it is part of a group of documents.) Date created or last revised. <Full address, also called a URL> (date you saw it).
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That and a 2,000-year tradition of revering scholarship. "Teacher", not "Sir",  is the most honorable title you can give someone in most of Asia.
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Yes, if they want to be called that.  \n\nNancy Sinatra, Jr. is one example of someone who chose to use the title.