| 单词 | courtesy rank |
| 释义 | > as lemmascourtesy rank courtesy rank n. (see sense 3b). courtesy rank b. Hence courtesy title: a title of no legal validity given by social custom or courtesy; esp. applied to the territorial titles given to the eldest sons of earls and peers of higher rank, the prefix Lord or Lady to the names of the younger sons and the daughters of dukes and marquises, and of Honourable to the children of Viscounts and Barons. So also courtesy rank, etc. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > [noun] > courtesy title honourablea1440 master1489 Hon'ble?1541 monsieur1598 curiality1641 courtesy title1840 1840 T. Arnold in A. P. Stanley Life & Corr. T. Arnold (1844) I. iii. 96 The courtesy rank which they had acquired already. 1865 E. Lucas in H. E. Manning Ess. Relig. & Lit. 361 A sort of courtesy-title, allowed to some aggregation of men who profess to belong to the One Society, but who do not in reality belong to it. 1887 Daily News 7 Sept. 6/3 The deceased..is succeeded in the courtesy title by his brother. 1889 Whitaker's Almanack 660 (heading) Titles of Courtesy borne by Eldest sons of Dukes, etc. < as lemmas |
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