Definition of "honorifically" []

• In a honorific manner. (adverb)

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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."
• "Moreover, political reasons may have motivated the Tibetans to address honorifically certain rulers as"
• "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.”"