honorific abstraction a phrase applied to a person out of honor and respect; the h. a. is introduced in PS-RULE [PS9] and described in more detail by PS-RULE [PS10]; the h. a. is found in the honorific title phrase before the given name, as “Her Royal Highness Elizabeth,” or before the rank, as “Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth” and consists in a) an possessive, in the form of a pronoun, b) possibly a qualifier, in the form of an adjective, and c) an abstraction, in the form of a noun.