honorific attribution 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 [PS11]; the h. a. is found in the honorific title phrase before the given name, as “The Most Honorable David Davis,” or before the rank, as “The Most Honorable Judge David Davis” and consists in a) an determiner, in the form of an article, b) possibly a quantifier, in the form of an adverb, and c) an attribute, in the form of an adjective.