honorific
[on-uh-rif-ik]
/ ˌɒn əˈrɪf ɪk /
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Honorific epithets, in vogue among barbarian tribes as well as among peoples of a more advance culture, commonly bear the stamp of this unsophisticated sense of honour.
From Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen, Thorstein