Conferring honor; importing respect or deference.n. A word or syllable used as a mere honorific term: as, for example, in the languages of China and Japan, kwei, honorable, kao, eminent, lao, venerable, go, imperial, o, great or august, used for the second and third personal pronouns when speaking to or of another: as, kwei kwoh, your (honorable) country; go sei mei, your (imperial) name, etc.