honorificabilitudinitatibus

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Etymology

Dative and ablative plural of Medieval Latin honorificabilitudinitas, from Latin honor and habilitās

Noun

honorificabilitudinitatibus (uncountable)

1. the state of being able to achieve honors
2. (figuratively) a sesquipedalian word; verbal prolixity
   • 1598, William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost:

     O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.

   • 1599, Thomas Nashe, Lenten Stuffe:

     Physitions deafen our eares with the Honorificabilitudinitatibus of their heauenly Panachea, their soueraine Ginacum.

   • 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses:

     Like John o'Gaunt his name is dear to him, as dear as the coat and crest he toadied for, on a bend of sable a spear or steeled argent, honorificabilitudinitatibus, dearer than his glory of greatest shakescene in the country.

Translations

being able to receive honours

• Bulgarian: мога да получа почести (bg) (moga da polucha pochesti) f
• Dutch: eerbewijsontvankelijkheid
• French: honorificabilitudinitatibe (fr)

• Hebrew: כביד (he) (kabeed) m
• Swahili: heshimiwa