Courtesy Title

In the context of nobility, a courtesy title is a title that is not a substantive title but rather is used through custom or courtesy.

In some contexts, courtesy title is used to mean the more general concept of a title or honorific such as Mr., Mrs., Ms., Dr., miss, sir, and madam.

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Famous quotes containing the words courtesy and/or title:

    “No rent-roll nor army-list can dignify skulking and dissimulation: and the first point of courtesy must always be truth, as really all the forms of good-breeding point that way.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “It was his title that killed me. I had never spoken to a lord before. Oh, me! what a fool, what a beast I have been!”
    —Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)