What's the difference between honorific and sonorific?

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.

Sonorific


Definition:

  • (a.) Producing sound; as, the sonorific quality of a body.

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