(n.) Originally, a shield-bearer or armor-bearer, an attendant on a knight; in modern times, a title of dignity next in degree below knight and above gentleman; also, a title of office and courtesy; -- often shortened to squire.
(v. t.) To wait on as an esquire or attendant in public; to attend.
Example Sentences:
(1) The law will affect a wide variety of publications, including the country’s leading business daily, Vedomosti, the Russian versions of glossy magazines such as Esquire, GQ and Cosmopolitan, and television channels such as Disney and Eurosport.
(2) Seeing a sign for a bar, I hiked up an iron staircase to the Esquire Tavern (155 East Commerce St), and felt as if I'd stepped on to the set of a Sam Peckinpah film.
(3) New restrictive laws are passed with dispiriting predictability: foreign media franchise owners are forced out of their stakes in international brands such as Forbes or Esquire based in Russia, fines and other penalties are introduced for not covering controversial subjects such as terrorism and drug abuse in terms that “do not explicitly discourage the behaviour”.
(4) As Esquire's Tom Junod put it after the speech : "if the Lethal Presidency reminds us of anything, it's that we should be a long way from judging this president on his rhetoric or his portrayal of himself as a moral actor."
(5) GQ's National Magazine Company rival, Esquire, fell further behind, down 9.3% year on year to 52,705.
(6) SCMP Group also owns the Hong Kong editions of magazines Esquire, Elle, Cosmopolitan and Harper’s Bazaar.
(7) Two and a half years ago, when the Russian edition of Esquire asked me to interview any person I found interesting, I immediately said: "The most interesting person for me today is Khodorkovsky".
(8) Fellow panelist Charlie Pierce, a writer for Esquire, had declared that demographic realities imply that the 2016 election “is the last time that old white people will command the Republican party’s attention, its platform, and its public face”.
(9) In 2010 she moved to Bauer to publish Grazia during a period of significant growth before being headhunted to join Hearst UK, where she published brands including Cosmopolitan, Red and Esquire across print, digital and events platforms.
(10) In an interview with Esquire magazine, Tony Blair said it was “an open question” .
(11) That same year Esquire magazine called Chief Timoney America's "best cop" and praised his rough and tumble attitude, as well as his commitment to protecting the public.
(12) The country has taken a decision in a referendum, there is no way that decision can be reversed, unless it becomes clear once people see the facts they change their mind.” Blair, a critic of the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, said he did not support the creation of a new political party but hinted in a recent interview with Esquire that he could be ready for a return to politics .
(13) He began his writing career publishing science fiction stories in Esquire.
(14) Arena has long been eclipsed by rivals GQ, which Condé Nast launched in 1989 and sold 130,094 copies a month in the second half of 2008; and National Magazine Company's Esquire, which relaunched in 2007, and sells 60,051.
(15) Why do magazines such as Esquire and Grazia think it's OK to talk about bums so lasciviously?
(16) Continuing to do well in the studios by day, he formed the Esquires of Rhythm, working nights on Central Avenue, with the young white alto-saxophonist Art Pepper in the group, which turned into Lee & Lester Young's Band after his brother turned up in Los Angeles in 1941.
(17) He completed his undergraduate education at New York university in 1948, and sold short stories to Esquire magazine and Atlantic Monthly.
(18) Hopes will be pinned on Esquire's special hardcover issue for September.
(19) A stint on ABC opposite William Buckley, covering the 1968 Republican and Democratic conventions, degenerated into abuse, with Vidal calling Buckley a "crypto-Nazi", Buckley suggesting that the "queer … [should] go back to his pornography", further attacks in the magazine Esquire, and suits for libel on both sides.
(20) Game that rewards players for killing Indigenous Australians pulled from app stores Read more According to the social network’s content policy, a photograph of a sun-browned Kim Kardashian stretched glamorously across a desert landscape, streaked in white body paint that covers her nipples, is an appropriate header image for Esquire’s piece on the body-shaming furore that often chases the star.
Honorific
Definition:
(a.) Conferring honor; tending to honor.
Example Sentences:
(1) Morsi reacted to some of the allegations made by the leaked report against the army by promoting three generals this week to honorific titles – a move that epitomises his administration's apparent wish to brush the report's findings under the carpet.
(2) You would also use honorifics when talking about his mother.
(3) Because it's a racial slur and – no matter how many millions it spends trying to sanitize it and silence native peoples – the epithet is not, was not, and will not be an honorific.
(4) Morsi promoted three major-generals to the honorific titles of lieutenant-general.
(5) One tends to associate honorifics with social hierarchy, but they play another critical role: they mark who you regard as belonging to your own group and who you don't.
(6) The 33-year-old law graduate, who asked to be known simply as “Hajj” – an honorific generally used by people who have completed the pilgrimage to Mecca – said the EU would be better off investing in local infrastructure for the long-marginalised Amazigh minority , the Berber tribe whose members run the smuggling networks in Zuwara.
(7) Daw Suu can convince them,” he said, referring to Aung San Suu Kyi with an honorific.
(8) She insists: "If you are a civil servant, refrain from showering other civil servants with honorifics when speaking in public ... Stop addressing each other in deferential language."
(9) What I find inexcusable is his extending the use of honorifics to other government agencies: "The honorable members of the self-defence army have most kindly agreed to send their tanks."
(10) It sounded fresh, momentarily freeing us from the overuse of honorifics by our government officials.
(11) If you are a civil servant, refrain from showering other civil servants with honorifics when speaking in public.
(12) In the morning, Mansour promoted him to the honorific title of Field Marshal – a move that often foreshadows an Egyptian officer's resignation from the military.
(13) Rand Paul has removed some references to himself as “senator” from his websites and official Twitter account, and replaced the honorific with “doctor”, in an apparent rebranding to increase his appeal as a presidential candidate.
(14) As for your superior, he would not use honorifics to you but he would use them when talking about your mother.
(15) The term 'professional' is used with different meanings, sometimes as simply the opposite of 'amateur' but at other times in an honorific sense to suggest a calling in contrast to a job.
(16) "You mean Sayed Qassem Suleimani," he said, giving Suleimani an Arabic honorific reserved for the most esteemed of men.
(17) The sole person in Japan who is not obliged to use honorifics, or rather, is prohibited from using them, is the emperor .
(18) It is in this honorific sense that physicians, attorneys and members of the clergy serve as paradigm professionals.
(19) When he stepped down from chairing Brain of Britain on Radio 4 a year ago, she argued in the Guardian that his trademark, old-fashioned use of the competitors' "honorifics and surnames" gave the show "an in-built quaintness that long outlived the era it might have belonged to".
(20) "Maulawi" or more usually "Maulvi" is an honorific title denoting a senior religious scholar in the local Deobandi school of Islam.